Appetite: Definition and part of speech

Appetite

  1. n. The thing desired.
  2. n. The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
  3. n. Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.
  4. n. Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
  5. n. Tendency; appetency.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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