Synonyms for food
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1. foodnoun

   Anything intended to supply energy or nourishment of an entity or idea.

   That is food for thought.

   Synonyms:
   brainfood

2. foodnoun

   A foodstuff.

   This shop stocks many hundreds of different foods.

   Synonyms:
   foodstuff

3. foodnoun

   Synonyms:
   sustenance, feed, nourishment, nosh, victuals, foodstuff, chow, fodder, eats, comestible

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. food

   Food is, in the popular sense, whatever one eats in contradistinction to what one drinks. Thus, we speak of food and drink, of wholesome, unwholesome, or indigestible food; but in a more scientific sense whatever, when taken into the digestive organs, serves to build up structure or supply waste may be termed food; the word is extended to plants to signify whatever taken in any way into the organism serves similar purposes; thus, we speak of liquid food, plant food, etc.; in this wider sense food is closely synonymous with nutriment, nourishment, and sustenance. Diet refers to the quantity and quality of food habitually taken, with reference to preservation of health. Victuals is a plain, homely word for whatever may be eaten; we speak of choice viands, cold victuals. Nourishment and sustenance apply to whatever can be introduced into the system as a means of sustaining life; we say of a convalescent, he is taking nourishment. Nutriment and nutrition have more of scientific reference to the vitalizing principles of various foods; thus, wheat is said to contain a great amount of nutriment. Regimen considers food as taken by strict rule, but applies more widely to the whole ordering of life. Fare is a general word for all table supplies, good or bad; as, sumptuous fare; wretched fare. Feed, fodder, and provender are used only of the food of the lower animals, feed denoting anything consumed, but more commonly grain, fodder denoting hay, cornstalks, or the like, sometimes called "long feed;" provender is dry feed, whether grain or hay, straw, etc. Forage denotes any kind of food suitable for horses and cattle, primarily as obtained by a military force in scouring the country, especially an enemy's country.

   Synonyms:
   aliment, diet, fare, feed, fodder, forage, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, regimen, sustenance, viands, victuals

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1. food, nutrientnoun

   any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue

   Synonyms:
   solid food, intellectual nourishment, food for thought, nutrient

2. food, solid foodnoun

   any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment

   "food and drink"

   Synonyms:
   solid food, intellectual nourishment, food for thought, nutrient

3. food, food for thought, intellectual nourishmentnoun

   anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking

   Synonyms:
   solid food, intellectual nourishment, food for thought, nutrient

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1. • Content
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1. foodnoun

   Synonyms:
   aliment, nutriment, nourishment, pabulum, nutrition, fare, diet, bread, meat, rations, victuals, subsistence, commons, provisions, viands, regimen, finding, sustenance, eatables, refreshments, comestibles, trencher, ambrosia, broma, manna

   Associated words:
   bromatology, bromatologist, alimental, alimentary, pabular, appetite, alimentation, nutrition, superalimentation, pantophagist, pantophagous, pantophagy, polyphagous, polyphagy, bromography, dietary, regimen, dietarian, dietetics, dieter, dietist, asitia, cater, caterer, sitology, chyle, chyme, victualer, steward, cibation, sitophobia, omnivorous, delicatessen, proteid, nitrogen, protein, commissariat, commissary

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1. List of paraphrases for "food":

   foods, dietary, foodstuffs, feeding, feed, eating, diet, foodstuff, grain, nutrition, mat, alimentos, alimentaires, alimentaria, alimentary, alimentaire, nutritional, power, aliments, meal, 'alimentation, foraging, meals, catering, nourishment, dining, lebensmittel, eat, trophic, restoration, agri-food, maintenance, alimentación, edible, grocery, feedingstuff

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1. The Observatory:

   No fewer than 60,000 detainees were martyred ... either as a result of direct bodily torture, or denial of food and medicine.

2. Judith Enck:

   The plastics and petrochemical industries are making it impossible to curb the amount of plastic contaminating our oceans, new research is always helpful, but we don’t need to wait for new research to take action — the problem is already painfully clear, in the plastic accumulating in our oceans, air, soil, food, and bodies.

3. Public Works Minister:

   Initial indications were that 1.5 million people were food-insecure with all the 60 rural districts being affected, overall, the food-insecure population has since risen to 2.44 million -- 26% of the population.

4. Leonardo Trasande:

   There are safe and simple steps that families can take to limit their exposure : reducing canned food consumption, avoiding microwaving plastic, this is also another opportunity to emphasize the need for fresh fruit and vegetable consumption as opposed to other highly processed or packaged foods. Not only because of the nutrients and how they differ but also because of the chemical contamination that is much greater... in fast food and other packaged foods.

5. Melina Avgerinou:

   We teach them what they need to know; where to find food, what they should eat, how they will make their nest in the winter, according to the season, we try to teach them what their mother would have taught them in nature.