Meaning

7 senses
  1. (transitive)To feed and cause to grow; to supply with food or other matter which increases weight and promotes health.

    ernähren, nähren, aufziehen

    корми́тьkormítʹ, пита́тьpitátʹ, вска́рмливатьvskármlivatʹ

  2. (transitive)To support; to maintain; to be responsible for.

  3. (transitive)To encourage; to foster; to stimulate

    to nourish civility

    to nourish a sense of self-worth

  4. (transitive)To cherish; to comfort.

  5. (transitive)To educate or bring up; to nurture; to promote emotional, spiritual or other non-physical growth.

    erziehen, großziehen, aufziehen

  6. (intransitive)To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.

    This type of nourishes very well.

  7. (intransitive, obsolete)To gain nourishment.

    provide with nourishment

Examples

32 sentences
  1. Milk nourishes a baby.

    Молоко поживне для дітей. — uaspeaker

    ruМолоко питательно для детей. — Hellerick

  2. We need to nourish our spirit.

    ruНам следует духовно обогащаться. — kukla

  3. This fish is inexpensive but nourishing.

    ruЭта рыба недорогая, но питательная. — Wezzel

  4. Reading of literature nourishes the mind.

  5. Milk is more nourishing than wine.

    ruМолоко питательнее вина. — marafon

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to feed and cause to grow:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to feed and cause to grow:
To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture:

Origin

From Middle English norischen, from Old French nouriss-, stem of one of the conjugated for

From Middle English norischen, from Old French nouriss-, stem of one of the conjugated forms of norrir, from Latin nutriō (“to suckle, feed, foster, nourish, cherish, preserve, support”).

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Forms

nourishes, nourishing, nourished, nourished
Base formnourish · to nourish
3rd person singularnourishes
Present participlenourishing
Past simplenourished
Past participlenourished

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theynourish
he, she, itnourishes

Past simpleLesson

all personsnourished

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave nourished
he, she, ithas nourished

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill nourish

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

15 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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