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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abstinence from food |
| Synonyms: | dietary, fast, nutritional therapy, regime, regimen, restriction, starvation, weight-reduction plan |
| Antonyms: | indulgence |
| Main Entry: | diet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abstain from food |
| Synonyms: | count calories, eat sparingly, fall off, fast, go without, lose weight, reduce, skinny down, slim, slim down, starve, tighten belt, watch weight |
| Antonyms: | gorge, indulge |
| Main Entry: | bread |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daily food |
| Synonyms: | aliment, bed and board, comestibles, diet, fare, feed, grub, necessities, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, provender, provisions, shingle, staff of life, subsistence, sustenance, viands, victuals |
| Main Entry: | convocation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assembly |
| Synonyms: | assemblage, conclave, concourse, confab, conference, congregation, congress, convention, council, diet, get-together, meet, meeting, powwow, synod, turnout |
| Main Entry: | council |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | people assembled for purpose |
| Synonyms: | assembly, board, body, brain trust, cabinet, chamber, clan, committee, conclave, confab, conference, congregation, congress, convention, convocation, diet, directorate, gang, gathering, governing body, groupthink, huddle, kitchen cabinet, meet, ministry, mob, official family, outfit, panel, parliament, powwow, ring, senate, synod |
| Notes: | counsel is 'advice, guidance' and a counsel is a lawyer; a council is a deliberative body of people assembled for some purpose and members are councillors (especially in Britain) |
| Main Entry: | fare |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food served at meals |
| Synonyms: | commons, diet, eatables, eats, edibles, meals, menu, provision, rations, slop, sustenance, swill, table, victuals |
| Notes: | a fair (noun) is a traveling show or carnival or a gathering of producers to promote business - fair (adjective) means free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception, or very pleasing to the eye, or not excessive or extreme; fare (noun) is the sum charged for transportation, or the food and drink that are regularly consumed - fare (verb) to get along or proceed |
| Main Entry: | fast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abstention from eating |
| Synonyms: | abstinence, diet, fasting, xerophagy |
| Antonyms: | eating, feast, gluttony, gorging, stuffing |
| Main Entry: | fast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go without food |
| Synonyms: | abstain, deny oneself, diet, famish, forbear, go hungry, not eat, refrain, starve |
| Antonyms: | eat, glut, gorge, stuff |
| Main Entry: | food |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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