| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | edible material |
| Synonyms: | aliment, bite*, board, bread, cheer, chow, comestible, cookery, cooking, cuisine, diet, drink, eatable, eats, entrée, fare, fast food, feed, fodder*, foodstuff, goodies, grit, groceries, grub, handout, home cooking, keep, larder, meal, meat, menu, mess*, moveable feast, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provision, ration, refreshment, slop, snack, store, subsistence, support, sustenance, table, take out, tuck, viand, victual, vittles |
| Antonyms: | beverage, drink |
| Main Entry: | board |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meal |
| Synonyms: | daily bread, eats, fare, food, keep*, mess, provisions, victuals |
| Notes: | a board is a committee having supervisory powers, a plank, or food served to lodgers - while bored is tired of the world a plank is thicker than a board |
| Main Entry: | dish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | main part of meal |
| Synonyms: | course, eats, entrée, fare, food, helping, recipe, serving |
| Main Entry: | flesh |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | body tissue, skin |
| Synonyms: | beef, brawn, cells, corpuscles, fat, fatness, flesh and blood, food, meat, muscle, plasm, plasma, protoplasm, sinews, thews, weight |
| Main Entry: | fodder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animal feed |
| Synonyms: | animal food, barley, corn, food, forage, grain, grass, grub, hay, meal, pasturage, provender, provisions, silage, straw, vittles |
| Main Entry: | fuel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something providing energy |
| Synonyms: | ammunition, combustible, electricity, encouragement, food, gas, incitement, juice, material, means, nourishment, propellant, provocation |
| Main Entry: | maintenance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perpetuation, support; sustenance |
| Synonyms: | aliment, alimentation, alimony, allowance, bacon, bread, bread and butter, care, carrying, conservation, continuance, continuation, food, keep, keeping, livelihood, living, nurture, preservation, prolongation, provision, repairs, resources, retainment, salt, subsistence, supply, sustaining, sustainment, sustention, upkeep, wherewithal |
| Antonyms: | desertion, forsaking, ignorance, neglect |
| Main Entry: | meat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flesh of animal consumed as food |
| Synonyms: | aliment, brawn, chow, comestible, eats, edible, fare, food, foodstuff, grub, muscle, nourishment, nutriment, provision, ration, subsistence, sustenance, victual |
| Main Entry: | menu |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | list from which to choose, often to choose food |
| Synonyms: | bill of fare, card, carte, carte du jour, cuisine, food, spread, table |