1a : food, nutriment. b : sustenance sense 3 books for intellectual nourishment. 2 : the act of nourishing : the state of being nourished.
Why is the L silent in Almond?
A: The “l” in “almond” was silent until very recently. Interestingly, the “l” didn’t appear in the first syllable of amandola, the medieval Latin word from which “almond” was derived, or in the earlier Latin amygdala, or in the still earlier Greek amygdale.
