Food
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English
Noun
Food (countable and uncountable; plural Foods)- (uncountable) Any substance that is or can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
- (uncountable, figuratively) Anything intended to supply energy or nourishment of an entity or idea.
- That is food for thought.
- (countable) A foodstuff.
- This shop stocks many hundreds of different foods.
Notes
- Adjectives often applied to "food": raw, cooked, baked, fried, grilled, processed, healthy, unhealthy, wholesome, nutritious, safe, toxic, tainted, adulterated, tasty, delicious, fresh, stale, sweet, sour, spicy, exotic, marine.
Synonyms
- (substance consumed by living organisms): chow (slang), eats(slang), feed (for domesticated animals), fodder (for domesticated animals), foodstuffs, nosh (slang), nourishment, sustenance, victuals
- (anything intended to supply energy or nourishment of an entity or idea): brainfood
- (foodstuff): foodstuff
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Adjectives for Food
unwholesome; essential; wholesome; synthetic; spiritual; health; celestial; unsating; best; marvelous; intellectual; digestible; exceptional; repulsive; abundant; nutritious; natural; precious; unscrupulous; untasted; leathery; toothsome; heedful; unusual; attractive; delicious; inferior; unsavory; highly-spiced; concentrated; smoking; inedible; nectar; canned; adulterated; medicinal; palatable; enjoyable; protective; sat¬isfying; superb; substantial; desirable; piscatorial; frosted; frozen; tonic; out-of-sea-son; obnoxious; packaged; non-fattening; tempting; accustomed; rejuvenating; cheapest; sharp-tasting; execrable; inadequate; concentrated; well-cooked; raw; fundamental; automatic; elaborate; ambrosia]; plenteous; delectable; scanty; superb; assimilated; vitalizing; luscious; world-famous; choice; dainty; tasty; good; fine; appetizing; excellent; splendid; inspired; insufficient.
Verbs for Food
absorb—; accumulate—; anoint—; assimilate—; bolt—; brown—; consume—; contaminate—; convey—; crave—; deprive of —; devitalize—; dilute—; dispense—; dole out—; expel—; flavor—; forage for—; freight—; masticate—; munch—; order—; partake of—; peptonize—; predigest—; prescribe—; puke—; purvey—; ration—; refine—; requisition—; restrict—; season—; shovel down—; snatch at—; sniff—; subsist on—; vomit—; withdraw—; wolf—; —agrees with; —decreases; —ferments; — irritates; —putrefies; —sustains; —upsets.
Thesaurus
aliment, bread, chow, comestibles, commons, eatables, eats, edibles, feed, foodstuff, foodstuffs, grub, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, pabulum, pap, provender, provisions, rations, scoff, subsistence, sustenance, tuck, viands, victuals
Etymology
From Middle English fode, from Old English fōda (“food”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with Low German Föde (“food”), Danish føde (“food”), Swedish föda (“food”), Icelandic fæða, fæði (“food”), Latin pānis (“bread, food”), Latin pāscō (“feed, nourish”, v). Related to fodder, foster.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: fo͞od, IPA: /fuːd/, SAMPA: /fu:d/
- (US) enPR: fo͞od, IPA: /fud/, SAMPA: /fud/
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Statistics
- Most common English words before 1923: respect · that's · Christian · #745: food · trying · states · wished
