English Online Dictionary. What means food? What does food mean?
English
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.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fo͞od, IPA(key): /fuːd/
- (General American) enPR: fo͞od, IPA(key): /fud/
- (MLE) IPA(key): /fʏːd/
- (Indic) IPA(key): /fu(ː)ɖ/
- (General South African) IPA(key): /fʉːd/, /fyːd/
- Rhymes: -uːd
Noun
food (usually uncountable, plural foods)
- (uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:food
- (countable) A foodstuff.
- Synonyms: (archaic, now only humorous or regional) belly-timber, foodstuff, provender; see also Thesaurus:food
- (uncountable, figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains.
- Hyponym: brainfood
- (uncountable, MLE) Any illegal substance or illegal substances, drugs.
Synonyms
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:food
- (substance consumed by living organisms): belly-timber (archaic, now only humorous or regional), chow (slang), comestible (formal), eats (slang), feed (for domesticated animals), fodder (for domesticated animals), foodstuffs, grub (informal), nosh (slang), nourishment, provender, scran (dialectal), sustenance, victuals
Derived terms
Related terms
- feed
- fodder
Collocations
Translations
See also
- breakfast
- brunch
- dinner
- dish
- dunch
- lunch, luncheon
- meal
- supper
- Category:Foods
Further reading
- food on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Category:food on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- do of, doof