Aliment vs Fare - What's the difference?
aliment | fare | Related terms |
Food.
(figuratively) Nourishment, sustenance.
* Francis Bacon
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 356:
(Scotland) An allowance for maintenance.
(obsolete) To feed, nourish.
To sustain, support.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 434:
(label) a going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage
Money paid for a transport ticket.
A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
Food and drink.
* , chapter=16
, title= Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
(UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
(archaic) To go, travel.
To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events.
* Denham
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, title= To eat, dine.
* Bible, Luke xvi. 19
(impersonal) To happen well, or ill.
* Milton
Aliment is a related term of fare.
As verbs the difference between aliment and fare
is that aliment is (obsolete) to feed, nourish while fare is .As a noun aliment
is food.aliment
English
Noun
(en noun)- aliments of their sloth and weakness
- All this monotony might be a good aliment for a poet but what if one had no gifts?
Verb
(en verb)- Yet there would also be many – and not simply the powerful and ultra-privileged – who lost out, and whose discontent operated as a kind of political yeast, alimenting ‘unpatriotic’ thoughts and acts.
Anagrams
* ----fare
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fare, from the merger of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
References
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
- So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.
Ian Sample
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- There was a certain rich man which fared sumptuously every day.
- We shall see how it will fare with him.
- So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.
