food
Plural: foods
Noun
- Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or absorb.
- any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
- any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment
- "food and drink"
- anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking
- 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.
Examples
- For Scrabble champions, a good vocabulary is just as essential as good FOOD for thought.
- Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
- The innkeeper brought them food and drink.
- The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
food for thought, intellectual nourishment, nutrient, solid food, Synonyms: see Thesaurus:food, aliment, bait, belly-timber, chow, comestible, comestibles, cuisine, eatables, eats, edibles, feed, fodder, food, foodstuff, foodstuffs, grub, kai, meals, meat, munchable, nibbles, nosebag, nosh, nourishment, om nom nom, provender, provisions, rations, scran, stodge, sustenance, tiffin, tuck, tucker, viands, victuals, vittles
Scrabble Score: 8
food: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfood: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
food: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary