Food Definition

fo͝od
foods
noun
foods
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.
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A specified kind of food.
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Solid substances of this sort.
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Anything that nourishes or stimulates; whatever helps something to keep active, grow, etc.
Food for thought.
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(countable) A foodstuff.

This shop stocks many hundreds of different foods.
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adjective
Of or relating to food.
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Used as food.
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Other Word Forms of Food

Noun

Singular:
food
Plural:
foods

Origin of Food

  • From Middle English fode, fude, from Old English fōda (“food”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with Scots fuid (“food”), Low German föde, vöde (“food”), Danish føde (“food”), Swedish föda (“food”), Icelandic fæða, fæði (“food”), Gothic (fōdeins, “food”), Latin pānis (“bread, food”), Latin pāscō (“feed, nourish”, verb). Related to fodder, foster.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English fode from Old English fōda pā- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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