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noun

1The kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats.

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selection of food, food and drink, food, foodstuffs, provisions, edibles, fare

screen violence is becoming the staple diet of the video generation

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2A special course of food to which a person restricts themselves, either to lose weight or for medical reasons.

I'm going on a diet

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dietary regime, dietary regimen, dietary programme, restricted diet, crash diet

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1Restrict oneself to small amounts or special kinds of food in order to lose weight.

I began dieting again

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follow a diet, be on a diet, eat sparingly, eat selectively, abstain, fast

He dieted me down to 185, to make sure I was as lean as possible.

Middle English from Old French diete (noun), dieter (verb), via Latin from Greek diaita a way of life.

1A legislative assembly in certain countries.

The term originated with the protest of the reforming minority at the diet of Spires in 1529 against the catholic majority.

Under the October Diploma of 1860, the government agreed to call the diets, which would then elect to the Reichsrat.

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legislative assembly, legislature, parliament, congress, senate, synod, council

That judgment sympathetically, clearly and concisely deals with a case that must have been very far from the ordinary diet of a judge sitting in the crown court.

Late Middle English from medieval Latin dieta day's work, wages, etc., also meeting of councillors.

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