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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. foodnoun

    Anything intended to supply energy or nourishment of an entity or idea.

    That is food for thought.

    Synonyms:
    brainfood

  2. foodnoun

    A foodstuff.

    This shop stocks many hundreds of different foods.

    Synonyms:
    foodstuff

  3. foodnoun

    Synonyms:
    sustenance, feed, nourishment, nosh, victuals, foodstuff, chow, fodder, eats, comestible

English Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 2 votes

  1. food

    Food is, in the popular sense, whatever one eats in contradistinction to what one drinks. Thus, we speak of food and drink, of wholesome, unwholesome, or indigestible food; but in a more scientific sense whatever, when taken into the digestive organs, serves to build up structure or supply waste may be termed food; the word is extended to plants to signify whatever taken in any way into the organism serves similar purposes; thus, we speak of liquid food, plant food, etc.; in this wider sense food is closely synonymous with nutriment, nourishment, and sustenance. Diet refers to the quantity and quality of food habitually taken, with reference to preservation of health. Victuals is a plain, homely word for whatever may be eaten; we speak of choice viands, cold victuals. Nourishment and sustenance apply to whatever can be introduced into the system as a means of sustaining life; we say of a convalescent, he is taking nourishment. Nutriment and nutrition have more of scientific reference to the vitalizing principles of various foods; thus, wheat is said to contain a great amount of nutriment. Regimen considers food as taken by strict rule, but applies more widely to the whole ordering of life. Fare is a general word for all table supplies, good or bad; as, sumptuous fare; wretched fare. Feed, fodder, and provender are used only of the food of the lower animals, feed denoting anything consumed, but more commonly grain, fodder denoting hay, cornstalks, or the like, sometimes called "long feed;" provender is dry feed, whether grain or hay, straw, etc. Forage denotes any kind of food suitable for horses and cattle, primarily as obtained by a military force in scouring the country, especially an enemy's country.

    Synonyms:
    aliment, diet, fare, feed, fodder, forage, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, regimen, sustenance, viands, victuals

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. food, nutrientnoun

    any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue

    Synonyms:
    solid food, intellectual nourishment, food for thought, nutrient

  2. food, solid foodnoun

    any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment

    "food and drink"

    Synonyms:
    solid food, intellectual nourishment, food for thought, nutrient

  3. food, food for thought, intellectual nourishmentnoun

    anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking

    Synonyms:
    solid food, intellectual nourishment, food for thought, nutrient

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How to use food in a sentence?

  1. Scott Lange:

    People throw food waste out the window. Whether it's a fast food wrapper or biodegradable food, it brings small animals to the side of the road and then larger animals come to try to get the smaller animals and they get hit, the number one thing you can do to help wild animals during your day is don't throw food waste out of your car.

  2. Francis Collins:

    That is the default and certainly the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) has that particular pathway available. If it is not possible to get the rigorous human data, it is still possible a vaccine could be approved.

  3. Abu Fatima:

    They're almost completely out of food. They're eating grass, tragic.

  4. Though Papile:

    We first took the photos outside, and it was slow at that time so the employees came outside and watched us, it was super fun, and we got a lot of weird stares from customers as we were both in gowns in a fast food restaurant.

  5. Stephen Yalof:

    We also have a fun The Elf on the Shelf scavenger hunt planned where we've placed the elves around our centers, some are inside of stores or at the food court.


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