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food /fuːd /noun [mass noun]Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth: we need food and water they had eaten their food and slept [count noun]: baby foods [as modifier]: food shortages figurative music is food for the soul...- They know how to prepare wholesome, delicious food themselves.
- I went to the grocery store that day and bought nutritious foods like fruits, vegetables and grains.
- She ate a lot of processed snack foods and the same big dinner every night and still felt hungry.
Synonyms nourishment, sustenance, nutriment, subsistence, fare, bread, daily bread; cooking, baking, cuisine; foodstuffs, edibles, refreshments, meals, provisions, rations, stores, supplies; solids; Scottish vivers informal eats, eatables, nosh, grub, chow, nibbles British informal scoff, tuck North American informal chuck archaic victuals, vittles, viands, commons, meat rare comestibles, provender, aliment, commissariat, viaticum fodder, feed, forage, herbage, pasturage, silage rare comestibles, provender Phrases Origin Late Old English fōda, of Germanic origin; related to fodder. Recorded since the beginning of the 11th century, food is related to fodder (Old English) and foster (Old English), originally found in the sense ‘feed, nourish’. It can refer to mental as well as physical nourishment—the expression food for thought to indicate something that deserves serious consideration has been in use since the early 19th century. Cannon fodder for soldiers regarded as expendable dates from the First World War.
Rhymes allude, brood, collude, conclude, crude, delude, dude, elude, étude, exclude, extrude, exude, feud, illude, include, intrude, Jude, lewd, mood, nude, obtrude, occlude, Oudh, preclude, protrude, prude, pseud, pultrude, rood, rude, seclude, shrewd, snood, transude, unglued, unsubdued, who'd, you'd |