Word Type

Noun

The word "food" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

drink

Typical Location

backpack boat bowl cabinet can container cupboard disneyland drive in movie fair fairgrounds fast food restaurant freezer fridge friend's house friend's wedding gallery opening home house jail jar kitchen mall market military base mouth neighbor's house oven pantry park plate refrigerator refrigerators relatives house restraunt resturant school shelf shop space shuttle spoon stomach store supermarket table trash truck wedding zoo

Capable Of

become moldy cake on pans cooked or uncooked cost lot cost money elevate one's mood feed animals give nourishment to hungry people go rotten grow moldy increase in price matter more than sex mean which one feeds on please hungry please hungry person prevent starvation provide comfort rots with age spilt on tablecloth taste salty tastes better with salt

Causes Desire

eat

Coordinate Terms

beverage

Defined As

priority industry

Derived Terms

Chinese food syndrome FoodTok K-food agri-food ambient food angel food angel food cake angel's food cake angel's-food cake angel-food cake animal food antifood avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder baby food bushfood cat food cheese food 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 music fast-food finger food fish food food additive food allergy food and board food art food artist food baby food bank food banking food bowl food cache food canal food cart food chain food closet food coloring food colouring food coma food court food crop food desert food digger food drive food fall food fight food fish food for powder food for the gods food for the worms food for thought food for worms food fraud food garden food hall food insecurity food intolerance food line food literacy food miles food mill food mixer food noise food oasis food pantry food pipe food plant food play food poisoning food porn food processor food puzzle food pyramid food science food scientist food security food service food shop food sovereignty food stamp food steamer food street food styling food stylist food supplement food swamp food tree food trip food truck food vacuole food waste disposer food web food wrap food writer food writing food-borne food-borne disease food-derived illness food-fall food-grade food-insecure food-literate food-secure food-to-go food-truck food-writing foodaholic foodborne foodcation foodery foodfest foodflation foodful foodgasm foodgrain foodie foodious foodism foodist foodista foodlegger foodless foodlike foodloaf foodmonger foodoir foodomics foodophile foodplay foodporn foodpreneur foodprint foodscape foodseller foodservice foodshed foodstagram foodstall foodstore foodstuff foodstyle foodtech foodtography foodware foodway foodweb foodwise foodwriting 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 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 worm food worm's food worm-food yuppie food stamp

Etymologically Related To

fodder foster

Has Part

effect of suppressing hunger

Has Property

edible fried in wok important to health mexican necessary for survival necessary to live necessary to sustain life nice to eat nourishing solid or liquid spicy spicy hot unhealthy very pleasurable very tasteful

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

cognitive content content mental object substance

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

baked good cake dairy product fruit grain leftovers nut pasta sandwich vegetable

Type Of (IsA)

content foundation for health fuel fuel for people good grocery human fuel not not sex nourishment often selected part of nation's culture smaller than animal eating solid substance what people eat

Located Near

plate

Made Of

carbon

Parts (Meronyms)

carbohydrate fat mineral protein seasoning trace element vitamin

Receives Action

bought at grocery bought at grocery store bought at market bought in grocery store bought in mall bought with currency built of carbon consumed cooked in kitchen cooked in pan cooked on grill eaten eaten by people eaten for nourishment eaten from dish eaten from plates eatin edible found in mall found in oven found in restaurants grown in rural areas made from animals or plants passed over fast food counter placed on serving cart placed on top of plate purchased at grocer shop purchased at mall purchased in pizzeria served in restaurant served on plate sold at grocery store stored in fridge stored in kitchen stored in pantry stored in tupperware

Related Terms

:Category:Foods alimentary breakfast brunch cook dinner dish dunch feed fodder kitchenware lunch luncheon meal supper

Related Terms

breakfast brunch consumable consumed dinner dunch eat eating eating item eating substance eating thing edible fast food feed fodder foodie foods foodstuff foody herb item kitchen lunch meal nourishment population density stomach substance supper sustenance

Synonym Network

aliment belly timber brainfood bread cheer commons diet fare fodder forage meat nourishment pabulum provender provisions rations subsistence sustenance viands victuals

Used For

eat eating energy enhance sex have fight hunger nourishment pleasure sustenance

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.