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Etymology

From Old French diete <Medieval Latin dieta < Ancient Greek δίαιτα (diaita).

Noun

diet (plural diets)

  1. The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
    The diet of the Giant Panda consists mainly of bamboo.
  2. (countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
  3. By extension, any habitual intake or consumption.
    He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.
  4. (countable) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.

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Verb

to diet (third-person singular simple present diets, present participle dieting, simple past and past participle dieted)

  1. (transitive) To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.iii.1.2:
      they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.
  2. (intransitive) To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.

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