food
pronunciation
How to pronounce food in British English:
UK [fuːd]
How to pronounce food in American English:
US [fuːd]
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- Noun:
- any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue
- any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment
- anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking
Word Origin
- food
- food: [OE] Food and its Germanic relatives, German futter ‘fodder’, Dutch voedsel ‘food’, and Swedish föda ‘food’, all go back ultimately to a prehistoric Indo-European base *pā-, *pī-, which also produced Latin pābulum ‘fodder’, Russian pisca ‘food’, and Czech pice ‘fodder’. The immediate source of all the Germanic forms was *fōth-, which had two important derivatives: *fōthram, which gave English fodder [OE] and (via Old French) forage [14] and foray [14] (etymologically probably a ‘search for food’); and *fōstrom, source of English foster.=> feed, fodder, forage, foray, foster
- food (n.)
- Middle English foode, fode, from Old English foda "food, nourishment; fuel," also figurative, from Proto-Germanic *fodon (cognates: Swedish föda, Danish föde, Gothic fodeins), from Germanic *fod- "food," from PIE *pat-, extended form of root *pa- "to tend, keep, pasture, to protect, to guard, to feed" (cognates: Greek pateisthai "to feed;" Latin pabulum "food, fodder," panis "bread," pasci "to feed," pascare "to graze, pasture, feed," pastor "shepherd," literally "feeder;" Avestan pitu- "food;" Old Church Slavonic pasti "feed cattle, pasture;" Russian pishcha "food"). Food-chain is from 1917. Food-poisoning attested by 1864; food-processor in the kitchen appliance sense from 1973; food-stamp (n.) is from 1962.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Refrain from ordering any food .
- 2. The second reason is food .
- 3. Food and water is scarce .
- 4. And heat physically softens food .
- 5. What is special about organic food ?