Synonyms for forage
ˈfɔr ɪdʒ, ˈfɒr-for·age

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.2 / 10 votes

1. forage

   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, food, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, regimen, sustenance, viands, victuals

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage, grassnoun

   bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle

   Synonyms:
   foraging, smoke, lea, gage, green goddess, weed, grazing land, dope, pasture, herbage, sess, eatage, supergrass, skunk, pastureland, locoweed, pasturage, grass, pot, sens, ley

2. foraging, forageverb

   the act of searching for food and provisions

   Synonyms:
   foraging, eatage, pasture, grass, pasturage

3. scrounge, forageverb

   collect or look around for (food)

   Synonyms:
   shnorr, scrounge, schnorr, cadge

4. forageverb

   wander and feed

   "The animals forage in the woods"

   Synonyms:
   scrounge

Matched Categories

1. • Feed
   • Hunt

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. foragenoun

   Synonyms:
   food (for horses and cattle)

2. forageverb

   Synonyms:
   wander in search of forage

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

1. List of paraphrases for "forage":

   fodder, feed, forages, drilling, foraging

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How to use forage in a sentence?

1. Eline Lorenzen:

   We can just say that this carbon signature is quite like that ofwalrusand bearded seals, both of which forage at the bottom of the sea.

2. Lindsay Porter:

   When you increase that underwater noise, you not only stop dolphins from being able to forage ... we also stop them communicating with each other.

3. Erica Fuller:

   Were approaching a tipping point where we need to be careful not to lose all of our forage species at the same time.

4. Philip Muruthi:

   Hippos usually come out of water late in the evening and at night to forage, so avoid trekking along the river at that time.

5. Divas Matinyadze:

   As beekeepers we jealously look after the environment because beekeeping depends on good water sources and good forage for pollen, there are lots of trees where my beehives are.