Synonyms for food
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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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 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 WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. food, nutrientnoun

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

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

3. food, food for thought, intellectual nourishmentnoun

   anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking

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

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1. • Content
   • Solid

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1. foodnoun

   Synonyms:
   aliment, nutriment, nourishment, pabulum, nutrition, fare, diet, bread, meat, rations, victuals, subsistence, commons, provisions, viands, regimen, finding, sustenance, eatables, refreshments, comestibles, trencher, ambrosia, broma, manna

   Associated words:
   bromatology, bromatologist, alimental, alimentary, pabular, appetite, alimentation, nutrition, superalimentation, pantophagist, pantophagous, pantophagy, polyphagous, polyphagy, bromography, dietary, regimen, dietarian, dietetics, dieter, dietist, asitia, cater, caterer, sitology, chyle, chyme, victualer, steward, cibation, sitophobia, omnivorous, delicatessen, proteid, nitrogen, protein, commissariat, commissary

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "food":

   foods, dietary, foodstuffs, feeding, feed, eating, diet, foodstuff, grain, nutrition, mat, alimentos, alimentaires, alimentaria, alimentary, alimentaire, nutritional, power, aliments, meal, 'alimentation, foraging, meals, catering, nourishment, dining, lebensmittel, eat, trophic, restoration, agri-food, maintenance, alimentación, edible, grocery, feedingstuff

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1. Marcus Samuelsson:

   Dawn Davis wasn't just a regular customer, dawn Davis was like,' Why are you doing this ? What's in the food here ?' Dawn Davis had questions around the food.

2. Gergely Gulyas:

   Hungary agrees with the ambitious goals set by the EU but we cannot sign a blank cheque, the 2050 climate goals cannot have the consequence of hiking the prices of food or energy.

3. Anthony Fauci:

   It is very important that this now must go through the usual process of careful examination of the data by the Food and Drug Administration both for effectiveness, but also for safety, because whenever you introduce a new compound, safety is very important.

4. Dominique Burgeon:

   We are trying to promote risk management, early warning systems and prevention (of food emergencies).

5. Charles E. Wilson:

   But I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself--you know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell.