Diet

Quick meaning: Diet is a noun meaning The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.

Meaning

The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
2. (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption.
3. (of a food or beverage) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
4. (informal, figurative) Having certain traits subtracted.
5. (intransitive) To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
6. (transitive, dated) To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
7. (obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.

Example Sentences

The doctor put me on a low-salt diet.

My jeans are too tight, so I'm going on a diet.

The diet of the giant panda consists mainly of bamboo.

He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.

Word Forms

• diets
• dieting
• dieted

Synonyms for diet

Depending on context, synonyms include lite, light, dieting, low-cal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include low-cal, light, lite, fatless, nonfat, fat-free.

Related Dictionary Tools