regimen
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.mən/
The English word “regimen” has 5 meanings listed here.
noun
- Orderly government; system of order; administration.
- Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
- Object.
- A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.
- Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.
Etymology
From Middle English regimen, from Middle French regimen and its etymon, Latin regimen (“guidance, direction, government, rule”). Doublet of regime.
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