food
Meanings
Plural: foods
Noun
- any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
- any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment
- "food and drink"
- anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking
- Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
- A foodstuff.
- Anything that nourishes or sustains.
- Any illegal substance or illegal substances, drugs.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English fode, foode, from Old English fōda (“food”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdō, from Proto-Germanic *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”).
Cognate with Scots fuid (“food”), Low German föde, vöde (“food”), West Frisian fiedsel (“food”), Dutch voedsel (“food”) Danish føde (“food”), Swedish föda (“food”), Icelandic fæða, fæði (“food”), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (fōdeins, “food”), Latin pānis (“bread, food”), Latin pāscō (“feed, nourish”, verb). Related to fodder, foster.
Synonyms
aliment, bait, belly-timber, chow, comestible, comestibles, cuisine, eatables, eats, edibles, feed, fodder, food, food for thought, foodstuff, foodstuffs, grub, intellectual nourishment, kai, meals, meat, munchable, nibbles, nosebag, nosh, nourishment, nutrient, om nom nom, provender, provisions, rations, scran, solid food, stodge, sustenance, Synonyms: see Thesaurus:food, tiffin, tuck, tucker, viands, victuals, vittles
Scrabble Score: 8
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