diet

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a prescribed selection of foods
  2. noun a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan)
  3. noun the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal)

Etymology

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).

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