food
food definition
food (fo̵̅o̅d)
noun
- any substance taken into and assimilated by a plant or animal to keep it alive and enable it to grow and repair tissue; nourishment; nutriment
- solid substances of this sort
- a specified kind of food
- anything that nourishes or stimulates; whatever helps something to keep active, grow, etc. food for thought
Etymology: ME fode < OE foda < IE pāt-, to feed, eat < base *pā-, to pasture cattle > L pastor, pabulum, pascere, to feed, panis, bread
adjective
- of or relating to food
- used as food
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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