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. 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. Valerie Hill Rawls:

   So it won't just be the day-to-day need to turn on your lights or your stove for food for cooking, it's actually going to drill down to basic health concerns from the heat that's upon us.

2. Mohamed Dahiye:

   We have had Kenyans that have been caught in the refugee database over the last 25 years. Some of them were looking for food, for shelter, for opportunities.

3. Oli Mian:

   If my son was here, I wouldn't have to stand in the long relief distribution lines for hours to get food, i'll write to him that I want to hear his voice.

4. Mitt Romney:

   There are 47 percent of people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it, that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax.

5. Antony Blinken:

   And of course, all of the impacts that this is having, including, for example, on food insecurity. We've spent a lot of time, a lot of focus in recent months in trying to address the challenges to food security that were exacerbated dramatically by Russia's aggression. We already had Covid, we already had climate change that were having profound effects on food insecurity. Add to that conflict, we now have well over 200 million people who are severely food insecure, this is something that leaders in countries around the world are feeling because their people are feeling it. And so and I think it increases the pressure on Russia to end the aggression.