Antonyms for food
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : food |
| Phonetic Transcription : fud |
Definition of food
Origin :- Old English foda "food, nourishment; fuel," also figurative, from Proto-Germanic *fodon (cf. Gothic fodeins), from Germanic root *fod-, equivalent of PIE *pa- "to tend, keep, pasture, to protect, to guard, to feed" (cf. Greek pateisthai "to feed;" Latin pabulum "food, fodder," panis "bread," pasci "to feed," pascare "to graze, pasture, feed," pastor "shepherd," literally "feeder;" Avestan pitu- "food;" Old Church Slavonic pasti "feed cattle, pasture;" Russian pishcha "food").
- Food chain is from 1917. Food poisoning attested by 1864; food processor in the kitchen appliance sense from 1973.
- noun edible material
- If the West stopped producin' men fur you, you'd be as bad off as if it stopped producin' food.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Uncle Peter had first declared that the thought of food sickened him.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Still, one kind of food cloys after a time, and so our new settlers found it.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- The History of Man is the record of a hungry creature in search of food.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- He found the district to the north to be a dreary waste, destitute of food and water.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- The hunger for the manhunt is like the hunger for food, and Bill Dozier had been starved for many a day.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- But whether it was the food she gave him or what, 'e was that wasted you wouldn't have known him.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
- Is not the life more precious than its food, and the body than its clothing?
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- It was not the first time he had known of such an effort on her part to supply him with food.
- Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
- When milk is used in a meal, what kinds of food may be omitted?
- Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
Synonyms for food
- aliment
- bite
- board
- bread
- cheer
- chow
- comestible
- cookery
- cooking
- cuisine
- diet
- drink
- eatable
- eats
- entrée
- fare
- fast food
- feed
- fodder
- foodstuff
- goodies
- grit
- groceries
- grub
- handout
- home cooking
- keep
- larder
- meal
- meat
- menu
- mess
- moveable feast
- nourishment
- nutriment
- nutrition
- pabulum
- provision
- ration
- refreshment
- slop
- snack
- store
- subsistence
- support
- sustenance
- table
- take out
- tuck
- viand
- victual
- vittles
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