| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | sustenance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | necessities for existence |
| Synonyms: | aid, aliment, bacon, bread and butter, bread, comestible, daily bread, eatables, edibles, food, keep, livelihood, maintenance, nourishment, nutrition, pap, provender, provision, ration, refreshment, salt, subsistence, support, victual, wherewithal |
| Antonyms: | extras |
| Main Entry: | staff of life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food for life |
| Synonyms: | bread, bread and butter, daily bread, meat, necessary food, pain, pane, staple, staple food |
| Main Entry: | bread and butter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sustaining income |
| Synonyms: | bread, daily bread, keep, livelihood, living, means, meat, staff of life, support, sustenance |