dietary
A regulated diet that excludes or constrains certain types of food, especially for health reasons; also, a book or similar setting out such regulations.
Other meanings
A prescribed meal plan setting out how the inhabitants of an institution (such as a prison, hospital etc.) should be fed, and on what foods.
Related words
- ethnodietary
- nondietary
- palaeodietary
- paleodietary
- predietary
- dietarily
- dietary fiber
- dietary fibre
- dietary indiscretion
- dietary supplement
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "diaeta" (diet).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “dietary” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.