Synonyms for food
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Noun
1. Meat — any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life
sustenance, nourishment, diet, bread, feed, foodstuff, cuisine, fare, subsistence, edible, fodder, grub informal, forage, cheer, table, nutriment, refreshment, tucker informal AU NZ, board, nurture, pap, pabulum
Other
commons, nutrient, belly-timber dated
Definitions
- n. 1
Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
The innkeeper brought them food and drink.
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Forms
- Plural
- foods → sustenances, nourishments, diets, breads…
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Food is, in the popular sense, whatever one eats in contradistinction to what one drinks. Diet refers to the quantity and quality of food habitually taken, with reference to preservation of health.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- diet That day was made a holiday by an act of the diet.
- bread A loaf of bread is better than the songs of birds.
- nourishment Oats are a multipurpose and valuable nourishment.
- sustenance Giraffes rely on acacia leaves for sustenance.
- nutrient Ziri wrote his thesis about nutrient absorption.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| food | steady | |
| diet | steady | |
| bread | rising | |
| nourishment | rising | |
| sustenance | rising | |
| nutrient | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- pap1
- 4 letters
- feed1, diet2, fare1, grub1
- 5 letters
- board1, table2, bread1, cheer1
- 6 letters
- tucker2, edible3, fodder2, forage2
- 7 letters
- commons2, cuisine2, nurture2, pabulum
- 8 letters
- nutrient3
- 9 letters
- foodstuff2, nutriment
- 10 letters
- sustenance3
- 11 letters
- subsistence3, nourishment3, refreshment3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (diet2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- nourriture
- Deutsch
- Nahrung
- Català
- alimentació