Although "aliment" is uncommon in today's English, you may recognize it in the somewhat technical term "alimentary canal"-the name for the long tube in the body through which food passes after it is eaten. …

Food - general words (Definition of aliment from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

To supply with sustenance, such as food: required by court order to aliment the abandoned family. [Middle English, from Latin alimentum, from alere, to nourish; see al- in Indo-European roots.]

ALIMENT definition: that which nourishes; nutriment; food. See examples of aliment used in a sentence.

Aliment is an old-fashioned word for "food" or "nourishment." If you go to a party expecting to be fed dinner, it'll be a big disappointment to realize there's no aliment at all, not even a bowl of chips!

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There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun aliment. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.