food
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fōōd
ipa: /fuːd/
ipa: [fuːd]
ipa: [fʊwd]
ipa: [fu̟(ː)d]
ipa: [fʊwd]
ipa: [fʉwd]
ipa: [fʉːd]
ipa: [fyːd]
enpr: fŏŏd
note: Indic
ipa: /fʊɖ/
note: US, dialectal, Ottawa Valley
ipa: /fʊd/
Forms: form: foods
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.
Senses: examples: text: The innkeeper brought them food and drink.
text: “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
 Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
ref: 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3:
glosses: Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
examples: text: Variation and changes in the trans fatty acid content of different foods, especially in processed foods, further complicate such estimates.
ref: 2006, C Williams, J Buttriss, Improving the Fat Content of Foods, →ISBN, page 492:
synonyms: word: belly-timber
word: foodstuff
word: provender
glosses: A foodstuff.
examples: text: The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought.
text: Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
text: This may prove food to my displeasure.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: In this moment there is life and food / For future years.
ref: 1798, William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey:
glosses: Anything that nourishes or sustains.
examples: text: What kind of things that you have. When I find out don't expect me to stop. I'll come for the P's that you stack. And come for the food that you blot.
ref: 2009 March 17, “Next Hype” (track 3), in All-Star Pars, performed by Tempa T:
text: I'm so London, I'm so south / Food in the ends like there ain't no drought / Flipz don't talk like he's got no mouth
ref: 2015, Stormzy, “Shut Up” (track 15), in Gang Signs & Prayer, performed by Stormzy:
text: [Verse 2:Kano]:If you've been shotting in the manor from way back when and you ain't on a kilo ting, I don't wanna hear about cunch and food and tings, man don't do those tings.
ref: 2016 March 4, “3 Wheel-Ups” (track 4), in Made in the Manor, performed by Kano (British musician),Giggs (rapper),Wiley (musician):
glosses: Any illegal substance or illegal substances, drugs.
Synonyms: word: Synonyms: see Thesaurus:food
sense: substance consumed by living organisms
word: belly-timber
sense: substance consumed by living organisms
word: chow
sense: substance consumed by living organisms
word: comestible
sense: substance consumed by living organisms
word: eats
sense: substance consumed by living organisms
english: for domesticated animals
translation: for domesticated animals
word: feed
sense: substance consumed by living organisms
english: for domesticated animals
translation: for domesticated animals
word: fodder
sense: substance consumed by living organisms
word: foodstuff
sense: substance consumed by living organisms
word: grub
sense: substance consumed by living organisms
word: nosh
sense: substance consumed by living organisms
word: nourishment
sense: substance consumed by living organisms
word: provender
sense: substance consumed by living organisms
word: scran
sense: substance consumed by living organisms
word: sustenance
sense: substance consumed by living organisms
word: victuals
word: aliment
word: bait
word: comestibles
word: cuisine
word: eatables
word: edibles
word: foodstuffs
word: food
word: kai
word: meals
word: meat
word: munchable
word: nibbles
word: nosebag
word: om nom nom
word: provisions
word: rations
word: stodge
word: tiffin
word: tucker
word: tuck
word: viands
word: vittles
Hyponyms: word: baked good
word: cake
word: dairy product
word: fruit
word: grain
word: leftovers
word: nut
word: pasta
word: sandwich
word: vegetable
Coordinate terms: word: beverage
Meronyms: word: seasoning
word: carbohydrate
word: fat
word: protein
word: vitamin
word: mineral
word: trace element
Derived terms: agri-food
ambient food
angel food
angel-food cake
angel food cake
angel's-food cake
angel's food cake
animal food
antifood
avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder
baby food
bushfood
cat food
cheese food
Chinese food syndrome
cold food powder
comfort food
convenience food
cottage food operation
deerfood
devil's-food cake
devil's food cake
dog food
dogfood
dude food
eat one's own dog food
every good boy deserves food
famine food
fast-food
fast food
fast food music
finger food
fish food
food additive
foodaholic
food allergy
food and board
food art
food artist
food baby
food bank
food banking
food-borne
foodborne
food-borne disease
food bowl
food cache
food canal
food cart
food chain
food closet
food coloring
food colouring
food coma
food court
food crop
food-derived illness
food desert
food drive
foodery
food fall
food-fall
foodfest
food fight
food fish
foodflation
food for powder
food for the gods
food for the worms
food for thought
food for worms
food fraud
foodful
food garden
foodgasm
food-grade
foodgrain
food hall
foodie
food insecurity
food intolerance
foodious
foodism
foodist
foodista
foodlegger
foodless
foodlike
food line
food literacy
food-literate
foodloaf
food miles
food mill
food mixer
FOODMO
foodmonger
food noise
food oasis
foodoir
foodomics
foodophile
food pantry
food pipe
food plant
foodplay
food play
food poisoning
food porn
foodporn
foodpreneur
foodprint
food processor
food puzzle
food pyramid
foodscape
food science
food scientist
food security
foodseller
foodservice
food service
foodshed
food shop
food sovereignty
foodstagram
foodstall
food stamp
foodstore
food street
foodstuff
foodstyle
food styling
food stylist
food supplement
food swamp
foodtech
food-to-go
foodtography
FoodTok
food tree
food trip
food truck
food-truck
food vacuole
foodware
food waste disposer
foodway
food web
foodweb
foodwise
food wrap
food writer
foodwriting
food-writing
food writing
foody
foodyolk
frankenfood
frozen food
functional food
ground food
hard food
health food
junk food
junk food news
larval food plant
lawn food
milk food
multifood
nanofood
natural food
nonfood
non-food
outside food
petfood
pharmafood
plant food
put food on the table
rabbit food
retort food
seafood
skin food
slow food
snack food
sometimes food
soul food
soyfood
street food
superfood
unfood
vegetable food
whole food
worm food
worm-food
worm's food
yuppie food stamp
Related terms: word: feed
word: fodder
word: breakfast
word: brunch
word: dinner
word: dish
word: dunch
word: lunch
word: luncheon
word: meal
word: supper
word: alimentary
word: cook
word: kitchenware
word: :Category:Foods