food
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *fōdô
Old English fōda
Middle English fode
English food
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.
Inflected forms:
form: foods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The innkeeper brought them food and drink.
“[…] 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. […]”
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.
gloss: A foodstuff, a type of food.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: Variation and changes in the trans fatty acid content of different foods, especially in processed foods, further complicate such estimates.
gloss: Anything that nourishes or sustains.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought.
Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
This may prove food to my displeasure.
In this moment there is life and food / For future years.
gloss: Any illegal substance or illegal substances, drugs.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
uncountable
usually
examples: 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.
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
[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.
Synonyms: Synonyms: see Thesaurus:food
aliment
bait
comestibles
cuisine
eatables
edibles
foodstuffs
food
kai
meals
meat
munchable
nibbles
nosebag
om nom nom
provisions
rations
stodge
tiffin
tucker
tuck
viands
vittles
Related words: feed
fodder
breakfast
brunch
dinner
dish
dunch
lunch
luncheon
meal
supper
alimentary
cook
kitchenware
:Category:Foods
Derived words: 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
dry food
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
foodborne
food-borne
food-borne disease
food bowl
food cache
food canal
food cart
foodcation
food chain
food closet
food coloring
food colouring
food coma
food court
food crop
food-derived illness
food desert
food digger
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-insecure
food insecurity
food intolerance
foodious
foodism
foodist
foodista
foodlegger
foodless
foodlike
food line
food literacy
food-literate
foodloaf
food miles
food mill
food mixer
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-secure
food security
foodseller
food service
foodservice
foodshed
food shop
food sovereignty
foodstagram
foodstall
food stamp
food steamer
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
K-food
larval food plant
lawn food
milk food
multifood
nanofood
natural food
non-food
nonfood
outside food
petfood
pharmafood
plant food
processed 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
ultra-processed food
unfood
vegetable food
wet food
whole food
Wikipedia food
worm-food
worm food
worm's food
yuppie food stamp
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