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| Main Entry: | food |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | edible material |
| Synonyms: | bite*, board, bread, cheer, chow*, comestible, cooking, cuisine, diet, drink, eatable, eats*, entrée, fare, fast food, feed, fodder*, grit*, groceries*, grub*, handout*, keep, larder, meal, meat, menu, mess*, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provision, ration, refreshment, slop*, snack, store, subsistence, support, sustenance, table, tuck, vittles*, aliment, cookery, foodstuff, goodies, home cooking, moveable feast, take out, viand, victual |
| Antonyms: | beverage, drink |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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-nouns
eating; deglutition, gulp, epulation, mastication, manducation, rumination; hippophagy, ichthyophagy; gluttony [more]., mouth, jaws, mandible, mazard, chops., drinking; potation, draught, libation; carousal (amusement) [more]; drunkenness [more]., food, pabulum; aliment, nourishment, nutriment; sustenance, sustentation; nuture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board; commissariat (provision) [more]; prey, forage, pasture, pasturage; fare, cheer; diet, dietary; regimen; belly timber, staff of life; bread, bread and cheese., comestibles, eatables, victuals, edibles, ingesta; grub, grubstake, prog, meat; bread, bread stuffs; cerealia; cereals; viands, cates, delicacy, dainty, creature comforts, contents of the larder, fleshpots; festal board; ambrosia; good cheer, good living., beef, biscuit, bun; cornstarch [U.S.]; cookie, cooky [U.S.]; cracker, doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake [U.S.], hominy [U.S.]; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled; remove, entree, entremet, hors d'oeuvre; releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets [more]; kickshaws; condiment [more]., alligator pear, apple, apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey [U.S.]; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash [U.S.], supawn [U.S.], trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut., table, cuisine, bill of fare, menu, table d'hote, ordinary, entree., meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; brunch; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana., mouthful, bolus, gobbet, morsel, sop, sippet., drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup; potion, dram, draught, drench, swill; nip, sip, sup, gulp., wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn, stingo, heavy wet; grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop, wassail; gin (intoxicating liquor) [more]; coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates; bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer; Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, maté, mint julep [U.S.]., eating house [more].
-verbs
eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize [more]; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble., live on; feed upon, batten upon, fatten upon, feast upon; browse, graze, crop, regale; carouse (make merry) [more]; eat heartily, do justice to, play a good knife and fork, banquet., break bread, break one's fast; breakfast, lunch, dine, take tea, sup., drink in, drink up, drink one's fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up; lap; swig; swill, tipple (be drunken) [more]; empty one's glass, drain the cup; toss off, toss one's glass; wash down, crack a bottle, wet one's whistle., purvey [more].
-adjectives
eatable, edible, esculent, comestible, alimentary; cereal, cibarious; dietetic; culinary; nutritive, nutritious; gastric; succulent; potable, potulent; bibulous., omnivorous, carnivorous, herbivorous, granivorous, graminivorous, phytivorous; ichthyivorous; omophagic, omophagous; pantophagous, phytophagous, xylophagous
-phrases
"across the walnuts and the wine" [Tennyson]; "blessed hour of our dinners!" [O. Meredith]; "now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!"
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| Main Entry: | fodder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animal feed |
| Synonyms: | food, forage, grain, grass, grub, hay, meal, provender, provisions, straw, vittles, animal food, barley, corn, pasturage, silage |
| Main Entry: | fuel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something providing energy |
| Synonyms: | ammunition, combustible, electricity, encouragement, food, gas, incitement, juice, material, means, nourishment, provocation, propellant |
| Main Entry: | maintenance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perpetuation, support; sustenance |
| Synonyms: | alimony, allowance, bacon*, bread, bread and butter, care, conservation, continuance, continuation, food, keep, keeping, livelihood, living, nurture, preservation, provision, resources, salt*, subsistence, supply, upkeep, wherewithal, aliment, alimentation, carrying, prolongation, repairs, retainment, sustaining, sustainment, sustention |
| Antonyms: | desertion, ignorance, neglect, forsaking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | menu |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | list from which to choose, often to choose food |
| Synonyms: | bill of fare, card, cuisine, food, spread, table, carte, carte du jour |
| Main Entry: | nurture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, nourishment |
| Synonyms: | breeding, care, diet, discipline, education, feed, food, instruction, nutriment, provender, provisions, subsistence, sustenance, training, upbringing, viands, victuals, edibles, rearing |
| Notes: | cherish means to be fond of, be attached to, while nurture means to bring up, help develop, help grow, or provide with nourishment |
| Antonyms: | deprivation, ignorance, neglect, starvation |
| Main Entry: | nutrient |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | source of nourishment |
| Synonyms: | fiber, food, health food, nutriment, mineral, supplements, vitamin |
| Main Entry: | ration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allotment of limited supply |
| Synonyms: | allowance, apportionment, assignment, bit, consignment, cut, distribution, division, dole, drag, food, helping, measure, part, portion, provender, provision, quantum, quota, share, store, supply, meed, piece of action |
| Antonyms: | whole |
| Main Entry: | repast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meal |
| Synonyms: | banquet, chow*, eats*, fare, feast, feed, food, grub*, mess, refreshment, snack, spread, victuals, refection |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | subsistence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | provisions for survival |
| Synonyms: | affluence, bread*, bread and butter, capital, circumstances, competence, earnings, existence, food, fortune, gratuity, income, independence, keep, legacy, livelihood, living, maintenance, means, money, nurture, pension, property, provision, ration, resources, riches, salary, salt*, substance, support, sustenance, upkeep, victuals, wages, wealth, wherewithal, aliment, alimentation, necessities |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | supplies |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | equipment, provisions |
| Synonyms: | food, material, provender, stock, store, foodstuffs, items, materials, necessities, rations, raw materials, replenishments, stores |
| Main Entry: | sustenance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | necessities for existence |
| Synonyms: | aid, bacon*, bread*, bread and butter, comestible, food, keep, livelihood, maintenance, nourishment, nutrition, provender, provision, ration, refreshment, salt*, subsistence, support, wherewithal, aliment, daily bread, eatables, edibles, pap, victual |
| Antonyms: | extras |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flesh |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | body tissue, skin |
| Synonyms: | beef, brawn, fat, fatness, flesh and blood, food, meat, muscle, weight, cells, corpuscles, plasm, plasma, protoplasm, sinews, thews |
| Main Entry: | meat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flesh of animal consumed as food |
| Synonyms: | brawn, chow, comestible, eats*, edible, fare, food, grub*, muscle, nourishment, nutriment, provision, ration, subsistence, sustenance, aliment, foodstuff, victual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | board |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meal |
| Synonyms: | eats*, fare, food, keep*, mess, provisions, victuals, daily bread |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | main part of meal |
| Synonyms: | course, eats*, entrée, fare, food, helping, recipe, serving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | table |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meal |
| Synonyms: | bill of fare, board, cuisine, diet, fare, food, menu, spread, victuals, meat and drink |
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