Thesaurus:food
English edit
Noun edit
Sense: substance eaten by living organisms edit
Synonyms edit
- aliment
- bait
- belly-timber (archaic)
- chow (slang)
- comestibles (formal)
- cuisine
- eatables
- eats (slang)
- edibles
- feed (for domesticated animals)
- fodder (for domesticated animals)
- foodstuffs
- food
- grub (slang)
- kai (New Zealand)
- meals
- meat [⇒ thesaurus] (archaic)
- munchable
- nibbles
- nosebag (informal)
- nosh
- nourishment
- om nom nom (Internet slang)
- provender (dated)
- provisions
- rations
- scran (Northern England)
- stodge
- sustenance
- tiffin (Britain, India)
- tucker
- tuck (Britain, dated)
- viands (archaic)
- victuals (archaic)
- vittles (colloquial)
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Notes edit
In semantic relations in Thesaurus, "food" is implied to mean "an item of food".
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “298. food” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “food” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.