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Food

//fuːd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life. uncountable, usually

    "The innkeeper brought them food and drink."

  2. 2
    any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue wordnet
  3. 3
    A foodstuff. countable, usually

    "Variation and changes in the trans fatty acid content of different foods, especially in processed foods, further complicate such estimates."

  4. 4
    anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking wordnet
  5. 5
    Anything that nourishes or sustains. figuratively, uncountable, usually

    "The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought."

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  1. 6
    Any illegal substance or illegal substances, drugs. Multicultural-London-English, uncountable, usually

    "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."

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.

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