food

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Meaning

Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
A foodstuff.
Anything that nourishes or sustains.
Any illegal substance or illegal substances, drugs.

cooked rice

boiled rice

cooked food

vegetable food

intellectual nourishment

things to eat

solid food

pabular

articles of food

staple food

edible thing

food and drink

box lunch

food products

food supplies

one’s daily bread

provisions for a journey

the necessities of life

food offering

food-stuff

livlihood

bad food

cook rice

nourishing food

prepared food

cusine

sacrificial fee

food material

food substance

something edible

act of providing

Food

what one eats

tabemono

pabulation

animal foodstuff

chiggle

chiggrul

edible oil

means of subsistence

midday meal

tired of

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fuːd/

From Middle English fode, foode, from Old English fōda (“food”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdō, from Proto-Germanic *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with Scots fuid (“food”), Low German föde, vöde (“food”), West Frisian fiedsel (“food”), Dutch voedsel (“food”) Danish føde (“food”), Swedish föda (“food”), Icelandic fæða, fæði (“food”), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (fōdeins, “food”), Latin pānis (“bread, food”), Latin pāscō (“feed, nourish”, verb). Related to fodder, foster.