food
noun
[ fuːd ]
• any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth.
• "we need food and water"
Similar:
nourishment,
sustenance,
nutriment,
subsistence,
fare,
bread,
daily bread,
cooking,
baking,
cuisine,
foodstuffs,
edibles,
refreshments,
meals,
provisions,
rations,
stores,
supplies,
solids,
vivers,
eats,
eatables,
nosh,
grub,
chow,
nibbles,
scoff,
tuck,
chuck,
victuals,
vittles,
viands,
commons,
meat,
comestibles,
provender,
aliment,
commissariat,
viaticum,
fodder,
feed,
forage,
herbage,
pasturage,
silage,
Origin:
late Old English fōda, of Germanic origin; related to fodder.
