From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Foodnourishmentnour‧ish‧ment /ˈnʌrɪʃmənt $ ˈnɜː-, ˈnʌ-/ noun [uncountable] formal1DFFOODthe food and other substances that people and other living things need to live, grow, and stayhealthy
lack of proper nourishment
The soil provides nourishment for plant roots.► see thesaurus at food2something that helps a feeling, idea, or belief to grow strongeremotional/intellectual/spiritual nourishment
a child starved of emotional nourishmentExamples from the Corpusnourishment• The program provides basicnourishment to low-income families.• The best nourishment for your writing is the following blend.• The foetus gets nourishment via the mother's bloodsupply.• But the improver is into intellectualnourishment on a lavishscale.• Our tuberculosispatients needed nourishment far more than we did.• During pregnancy her unborn child strips her of nourishment for its own metabolic needs, so she becomes still weaker.• Though by that time, he was not usually thinking of nourishment but the simplesatisfaction of hunger.• A growing child needs propernourishment.• Calvesrely on their mother's milk to provide nourishment.• The retreat gives me a kind of spiritualnourishment.• They welcome me warmly, and I feast on the nourishment for which I was born and which is mineparexcellence.• The nourishmentflows in both directions.emotional/intellectual/spiritual nourishment• But the improver is into intellectual nourishment on a lavish scale.
