Thesaurus:food

Thesaurus

food

English

Noun

Sense: substance eaten by living organisms

Synonyms

• aliment
• bait
• belly-timber (archaic)
• chow (slang)
• comestibles (formal)
• cuisine
• eatables
• eats (slang)
• edibles
• feed (for domesticated animals)
• fodder (for domesticated animals)
• foodstuffs
• food
• grub (slang)
• kai (New Zealand)
• meals
• meat    [⇒ thesaurus] (archaic)
• munchable
• nibbles
• nosebag (informal)
• nosh
• nourishment
• om nom nom (Internet slang)
• provender (dated)
• provisions
• rations
• scran (Northern England)
• stodge
• sustenance
• tiffin (Britain, India)
• tucker
• tuck (Britain, dated)
• viands (archaic)
• victuals (archaic)
• vittles (colloquial)

Hyponyms

• baked good
• cake    [⇒ thesaurus]
• dairy product    [⇒ thesaurus]
• fruit    [⇒ thesaurus]
• grain    [⇒ thesaurus]
• leftovers
• meat    [⇒ thesaurus]
• nut    [⇒ thesaurus]
• pasta    [⇒ thesaurus]
• sandwich    [⇒ thesaurus]
• vegetable    [⇒ thesaurus]

Meronyms

• seasoning    [⇒ thesaurus]
•   —
• carbohydrate    [⇒ thesaurus]
• fat    [⇒ thesaurus]
• protein    [⇒ thesaurus]
• vitamin    [⇒ thesaurus]
• mineral    [⇒ thesaurus]
• trace element

Metonyms

• dish

Coordinate terms

• beverage    [⇒ thesaurus]

Notes

In semantic relations in Thesaurus, "food" is implied to mean "an item of food".

See also

• Thesaurus:alimentary
• Thesaurus:cook
• Thesaurus:kitchenware
• Category:Foods

Further reading

• “298. food” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “food” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.