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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. food, nutrientnoun

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

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

3. food, food for thought, intellectual nourishmentnoun

   anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking

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

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1. • Content
   • Solid

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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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

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. Nikola Tesla:

   I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success . . . Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

2. Carrie Chlebanowski:

   People are recognizing that local farms like ours have access to food and have the ability to provide them things that they don't have to go into the grocery store to get.

3. Robert Kisyula:

   There are thousands of displaced families living in camps now with no food. The needs are dire. There is no water, limited sanitation facilities as parents and children share the few toilets available, these were unprecedented floods. They have shocked all of us: from government, to donors to the people.

4. Butcher Johel Prieto:

   Of course they eat the meat -- thanks to [President Nikolas] Maduro, the food of the poor is rotten food.

5. Rochelle Walensky:

   [The U.S. Food and Drug Administration] is currently evaluating data on the authorization of booster doses for all people over age 18. As we’ve done before, CDC will quickly review the safety and effectiveness data and make recommendations as soon as we hear from FDA.