From Middle English diet, dyet, diete, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin dieta (“regimen, regulation; assembly”), from Latin diaeta, from Ancient Greek δίαιτα (díaita).
Meanings
(not-comparable, of a food or beverage) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
Diet Light (Pizarro 724; snacks S2-7; 9:30am-10pm)
This perennially busy place serves not-very-diet, but yummy nonetheless, ice cream (S2 to S5) and whopping servings of mixed fruit (S3) – with ice cream. 2010, Lonely Planet Peru, →ISBN, page 347:
The difference in weight (mass) of the regular and the diet drink of the same brand roughly equals to the amount of sugar in the regular drink. 1998, Andy Sae, Chemical Magic from the Grocery Store:
diet soda
Many grocery chains offer premium-priced lean or diet hamburger; but the fat content is usually at least 10 percent, sometimes 15 percent or more. 1982, Consumer Guide, Dieter's Complete Guide to Calories, Carbohydrates, Sodiums, Fats & Cholesterol, page 18:
(figuratively, informal, not-comparable) Having certain traits subtracted.
You folks reduce it to the bible only as being authoritative, impoverishing the faith. "Christianity Lite", diet Christianity for those who can't handle the Whole Meal.
From Middle English diet, dyet, diete, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin dieta (“regimen, regulation; assembly”), from Latin diaeta, from Ancient Greek δίαιτα (díaita).
Meanings
The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
The diet of the giant panda consists mainly of bamboo.
It is common policy to order no more diet than will be used within one month. 2013, Martin D Buckland, Lynda Hall, Alan Mowlem, A Guide to Laboratory Animal Technology, page 56:
(countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
He's been on a diet since he found out that he has coronary atherosclerosis.
The doctor put me on a low-salt diet.
My jeans are too tight, so I'm going on a diet.
(broadly) Any habitual intake or consumption.
He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.
Last week the aging video game retailer emerged as the hottest stock on Wall Street, a story just unexpected and absurd enough to fill the new Trump-shaped void in our nation’s media diet. 2021 February 3, Farhad Manjoo, “Can We Please Stop Talking About Stocks, Please?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
ga réim bia (controlled regimen of food) · kk емдәм (food a person or animal consumes) · gl dieta (food a person or animal consumes) · it dieta (food a person or animal consumes) · hy դիետա (food a person or animal consumes) · ja ダイエット (food a person or animal consumes) · mk и́схрана (food a person or animal consumes) · nl dieet (controlled regimen of food) · el διατροφή (food a person or animal consumes) · mr पथ्य (controlled regimen of food) · az pəhriz (food a person or animal consumes) · ko 다이어트 (controlled regimen of food) · mk дие́та (habitual consumption) · tr perhiz (controlled regimen of food) · ko 다이어트 (food a person or animal consumes) · th อาหาร (food a person or animal consumes) · ru стол (food a person or animal consumes) · be дые́та (food a person or animal consumes) · de Speiseplan (food a person or animal consumes) · sv föda (food a person or animal consumes) · vi chế độ ăn kiêng (controlled regimen of food) · el διαιτολόγιο (controlled regimen of food) · uk діє́та (food a person or animal consumes) · sv kost (food a person or animal consumes) · grc διαίτημα (food a person or animal consumes) · is mataræði (food a person or animal consumes) · fa-ira رِژیمِ غِذایی (food a person or animal consumes) · sq dietë (controlled regimen of food) · ia dieta (food a person or animal consumes) · cs dieta (controlled regimen of food) · uz diyeta (controlled regimen of food) · it dieta (controlled regimen of food) · ota پرهیز (controlled regimen of food) · ota پرهیزانه (food a person or animal consumes) · da diæt (controlled regimen of food) · hu táplálék (food a person or animal consumes) · af dieet (controlled regimen of food) · bg хра́на (food a person or animal consumes) · da føde (food a person or animal consumes) · he דִּיאֵטָה (controlled regimen of food) · bg дие́та (habitual consumption) · io dieto (controlled regimen of food) · he דִּיאֵטָה (food a person or animal consumes) · te ఆహారం (food a person or animal consumes) · ru дие́та (controlled regimen of food) · sv bantning (controlled regimen of food) · pt dieta (food a person or animal consumes) · ca dieta (controlled regimen of food) · ru дие́та (food a person or animal consumes) · da næring (food a person or animal consumes) · fi ruokavalio (controlled regimen of food) · pl dieta (controlled regimen of food) · ru пи́ща (food a person or animal consumes) · fa-ira رِژیم (controlled regimen of food) · kk емдәм (controlled regimen of food) · km របបអាហារ (food a person or animal consumes) · nb kosthold (food a person or animal consumes) · ta உணவு (controlled regimen of food) · sv diet (controlled regimen of food) · ota حمیه (controlled regimen of food) · ar حِمْيَة (controlled regimen of food) · pt dieta (habitual consumption) · et dieet (controlled regimen of food) · hy դիետա (controlled regimen of food) · ru рацио́н (food a person or animal consumes) · ru еда́ (food a person or animal consumes) · nb ernæring (food a person or animal consumes) · fr diète (food a person or animal consumes) · sq dietë (food a person or animal consumes) · tk berhiz (controlled regimen of food) · nb diett (food a person or animal consumes) · ckb پارێز (controlled regimen of food) · sk strava (food a person or animal consumes) · af dieet (food a person or animal consumes) · afb دايت (controlled regimen of food) · fi kulutus (habitual consumption) · sh дије́та (controlled regimen of food) · sh hrána (food a person or animal consumes) · ca dieta (food a person or animal consumes) · la diaeta (controlled regimen of food) · ar حِمْيَة (food a person or animal consumes) · sh хра́на (food a person or animal consumes) · be дые́та (controlled regimen of food) · hu étrend (controlled regimen of food) · da kost (food a person or animal consumes) · bg дие́та (controlled regimen of food) · be е́жа (food a person or animal consumes) · de Nahrung (food a person or animal consumes) · cmn 節食 /节食 (controlled regimen of food) · ga réim bia (food a person or animal consumes) · az pəhriz (controlled regimen of food) · sl prehrana (food a person or animal consumes) · sh dijéta (controlled regimen of food) · km អាហារ (food a person or animal consumes) · ga aiste bia (controlled regimen of food) · bg дие́та (food a person or animal consumes) · ga réim (controlled regimen of food) · sk diéta (controlled regimen of food) · pl dieta (food a person or animal consumes) · fr régime (controlled regimen of food) · fa-ira رِژیم (food a person or animal consumes) · hy սննդակարգ (controlled regimen of food) · lt dieta (controlled regimen of food) · es dieta (controlled regimen of food) · acw رَجيم (controlled regimen of food) · afb رجيم (controlled regimen of food) · mi whiringa kai (food a person or animal consumes) · la victus (food a person or animal consumes) · da kur (controlled regimen of food) · ky диета (controlled regimen of food) · ja ダイエット (controlled regimen of food) · ar حِمْيَة غِذَائِيَّة (food a person or animal consumes) · ga aiste bia (food a person or animal consumes) · mi mahere kai (controlled regimen of food) · sh dijéta (habitual consumption) · cmn 食物 (food a person or animal consumes) · tk berhiz (food a person or animal consumes) · el δίαιτα (habitual consumption) · de Ernährung (food a person or animal consumes) · de Kost (habitual consumption) · mi mahere kai hauora (controlled regimen of food) · da føde (food a person or animal consumes) · fi ruokavalio (food a person or animal consumes) · sh ȉshrana (food a person or animal consumes) · el δίαιτα (controlled regimen of food) · lv diēta (controlled regimen of food) · de Diät (controlled regimen of food) · arz ريجيم (controlled regimen of food) · es dieta (food a person or animal consumes) · fi laihdutuskuuri (controlled regimen of food) · tr rejim (controlled regimen of food) · sh и̏схрана (food a person or animal consumes) · hu diéta (controlled regimen of food) · hi आहार (controlled regimen of food) · tr diyet (food a person or animal consumes) · nl dieet (food a person or animal consumes) · de Konsum (habitual consumption) · kk диета (controlled regimen of food) · da ernæring (food a person or animal consumes) · nb næring (food a person or animal consumes) · ar نِظَام غِذَائِيّ (controlled regimen of food) · fr régime (food a person or animal consumes) · fro diete (food a person or animal consumes) · ro dietă (controlled regimen of food) · gl dieta (controlled regimen of food) · csb dieta (controlled regimen of food) · arz ريچيم (controlled regimen of food) · sl dieta (controlled regimen of food) · lo ອາຫານ (food a person or animal consumes) · cs strava (food a person or animal consumes) · ru дие́та (habitual consumption) · ka დიეტა (controlled regimen of food) · hy սննդակարգ (food a person or animal consumes) · ta உணவு (food a person or animal consumes) · cmn 飲食 /饮食 (food a person or animal consumes) · ota یمكدن صاقنمه (controlled regimen of food) · hu fogyókúra (controlled regimen of food) · ru режи́м пита́ния (controlled regimen of food) · cmn 吃喝 (food a person or animal consumes) · ja 飲食 (food a person or animal consumes) · ru пита́ние (food a person or animal consumes) · fi dieetti (controlled regimen of food) · uk ї́жа (food a person or animal consumes) · tg парҳез (controlled regimen of food) · it dieta (habitual consumption) · ia dieta (controlled regimen of food) · uz parhez (controlled regimen of food) · jv diet (food a person or animal consumes) · pt dieta (controlled regimen of food) · ota قورنمه (controlled regimen of food) · frm diete (food a person or animal consumes) · mk дие́та (food a person or animal consumes) · pt regime (controlled regimen of food) · hu étrend (food a person or animal consumes) · sh дије́та (habitual consumption) · ko 식단 (food a person or animal consumes) · vi chế độ ăn uống (food a person or animal consumes) · tr diyet (controlled regimen of food) · cmn 飲食療養 /饮食疗养 (controlled regimen of food) · mk дие́та (controlled regimen of food) · oc dièta (food a person or animal consumes)
From Middle English dieten, dyeten, diȝeten, from Old French dïeter and Medieval Latin diētāre.
Meanings
(intransitive) To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
I've been dieting for six months, and I've lost some weight.
(dated, transitive) To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.
When all signs of effusion, dulness, pain, œgophony, and cough had disappeared he was dieted, stimulated, and tonicked. 1887, Medical Press and Circular, volume 94, page 461:
As illustrating the belief that the Baptism by Blood was accompanied by a real regeneration of the devotee, Frazer quotes an ancient writer who says that for some time after the ceremony the fiction of a new birth was kept up by dieting the devotee on milk, like a new-born babe. 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 45:
(obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.
Let him[…]diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he travelleth. 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Travel”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
(obsolete, transitive) To cause to take food; to feed.
But partly led to diet my revenge […]. c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
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Translations (25)
es estar dietado (to regulate the food of someone) · da være på slankekur (to modify one's food and beverage intake) · sv banta (to modify one's food and beverage intake) · fi ruokkia (to regulate the food of someone) · es estar adietado (to regulate the food of someone) · fi noudattaa ruokavaliota (to modify one's food and beverage intake) · tr diyete sokmak (to regulate the food of someone) · da slanke (to regulate the food of someone) · hu diétára fog (to regulate the food of someone) · da sætte på diæt (to regulate the food of someone) · es adietar (to modify one's food and beverage intake) · tr diyet yapmak (to modify one's food and beverage intake) · es poner a dieta (to modify one's food and beverage intake) · es dietar (to modify one's food and beverage intake) · fi ruokkia (to cause to take food; to feed) · sv banta (to regulate the food of someone) · fi syöttää (to cause to take food; to feed) · hu fogyókúrázik (to modify one's food and beverage intake) · fi ruokailla (to take one's meals) · fi laihduttaa (to modify one's food and beverage intake) · mi whakatiki (to modify one's food and beverage intake) · da slanke (to modify one's food and beverage intake) · es estar a dieta (to regulate the food of someone) · hu diétázik (to modify one's food and beverage intake) · da være på diæt (to modify one's food and beverage intake)
From Middle English diet, dyet, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin diēta, diaeta (“a public assembly; set day of trial; a day's journey”), from Ancient Greek δῐ́αιτα (dĭ́aita, “way of living, living space; decision, judgement”), influenced by Latin diēs (“day”).
Meanings
(as a proper noun, capitalized, usually) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
They were given representation in some important diet committees.
the National Diet of Japan
(Scotland) A session of exams.
Normally the diet begins towards the end of April. 2020 June 14, “Coronavirus: School exam timetable could be put back next year”, in BBC News website, BBC, retrieved 23 Apr 2026:
(qualifier:Scots law) A criminal proceeding in court.
(Scotland) A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.
mk собрание (council of leaders) · ja 国会 (council of leaders) · de Tag (council of leaders) · el δίαιτα (council of leaders) · ar مَجْلِس (council of leaders) · el βουλή (council of leaders) · hu parlament (council of leaders) · ru кокка́й (council of leaders) · nl rijksdag (council of leaders) · da parlament (council of leaders) · it dieta (council of leaders) · fr parlement (council of leaders) · io dieto (council of leaders) · ar بَرْلَمَان (council of leaders) · cmn 國會 /国会 (council of leaders) · pt dieta (council of leaders) · de Parlament (council of leaders) · de Kokkai (council of leaders) · ru парла́мент (council of leaders) · de Versammlung (council of leaders) · ja 議会 (council of leaders) · el συνέλευση (council of leaders) · tr diyet (council of leaders) · ru сейм (council of leaders) · fr Diète (council of leaders) · hu országgyűlés (council of leaders) · he דִּיאֶט (council of leaders) · cmn 議會 /议会 (council of leaders) · sv dag (council of leaders) · hu diéta (council of leaders) · nl parlement (council of leaders) · fi valtiopäivät (council of leaders) · el σύνοδος (council of leaders) · nl landdag (council of leaders)