| Main Entry: | board |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meal |
Synonyms: |
daily bread, eats, fare, food, keep*, mess, provisions, victuals |
| Notes: | a board is a committee having supervisory powers, a plank, or food served to lodgers - while bored is tired of the world a plank is thicker than a board |
| Main Entry: | diet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daily intake of food |
Synonyms: |
aliment, bite, comestibles, commons, daily bread, edibles, fare, goodies, grubbery, menu, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, provisions, rations, snack, subsistence, sustenance, viands, victuals |
| Main Entry: | sustenance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | necessities for existence |
Synonyms: |
aid, aliment, bacon, bread and butter, bread, comestible, daily bread, eatables, edibles, food, keep, livelihood, maintenance, nourishment, nutrition, pap, provender, provision, ration, refreshment, salt, subsistence, support, victual, wherewithal |
Antonyms: |
extras |
| Main Entry: | staff of life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food for life |
Synonyms: |
bread, bread and butter, daily bread, meat, necessary food, pain, pane, staple, staple food |
| Main Entry: | bread and butter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sustaining income |
Synonyms: |
bread, daily bread, keep, livelihood, living, means, meat, staff of life, support, sustenance |