entrée

Main Entry:
entrée [ahn-trey]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: admittance
Synonyms: access, adit, admission, connection, contact, debut, door, entrance, entry, importation, in, incoming, induction, ingress, introduction, open arms, open door, way
Antonyms: blackballing, rejection
Main Entry: dish
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: main part of meal
Synonyms: course, eats, entrée, fare, food, helping, recipe, serving
Notes: dish is a more general term and plate is more specialized
Main Entry: entrance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: coming into a place; introduction
Synonyms: access, accession, adit, admission, admittance, appearance, approach, arrival, baptism, beginning, commencement, debut, enlistment, enrollment, entry, entrée, immigration, import, importation, inception, incoming, ingoing, ingress, ingression, initiation, invasion, outset, passage, penetration, progress, start, trespass
Antonyms: conclusion, departure, exit, leave
Main Entry: entry
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: introduction; permission to enter
Synonyms: access, adit, admission, admittance, appearance, coming in, entering, entrance, entrée, free passage, ingress, initiation, introgression, way
Antonyms: blackballing, conclusion, refusal, rejection
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
Main Entry: way
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: direction, route
Synonyms: access, admission, admittance, advance, alternative, approach, artery, avenue, bearing, boulevard, byway, channel, course, distance, door, drag*, elbowroom, entrance, entry, entrée, extent, forward motion, gate, gateway, headway, highway, ingress, journey, lane, length, line, march, movement, opening, orbit, passage, path, pathway, progress, progression, ride, road, room, row, space, stone's throw, street, stretch, tendency, thataway, thoroughfare, track, trail, trend, walk
Main Entry: welcome
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: greeting
Synonyms: acceptance, entertainment, entrée, friendliness, handshake, hello, hospitality, howdy, key to the city, ovation, reception, red carpet, rumble*, salutation, salute, tumble*
Antonyms: goodbye
Main Entry: pap
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: food
Synonyms: aliment, bite*, board, bread, cheer, chow, comestible, cookery, cooking, cuisine, diet, drink, eatable, eats, edible, entrée, esculent, fare, fast food, feed, fodder*, foodstuff, goodies, grit, groceries, grub, handout, home cooking, keep, larder, meal, meat, menu, mess*, moveable feast, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, provision, ration, refreshment, slop, snack, store, subsistence, support, sustenance, table, take out*, tuck, viand, victual, vittles
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Eating] Food.
Category: 4. Motion with reference to direction
Synonyms:
-nouns
eating; deglutition, gulp, epulation, mastication, manducation, rumination; hippophagy, ichthyophagy; gluttony., mouth, jaws, mandible, mazard, chops., drinking; potation, draught, libation; carousal (amusement); drunkenness., food, pabulum; aliment, nourishment, nutriment; sustenance, sustentation; nuture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board; commissariat (provision); prey, forage, pasture, pasturage; fare, cheer; diet, dietary; regimen; belly timber, staff of life; bread, bread and cheese., comestibles, eatables, victuals, edibles, ingesta; grub, grubstake, prog, meat; bread, bread stuffs; cerealia; cereals; viands, cates, delicacy, dainty, creature comforts, contents of the larder, fleshpots; festal board; ambrosia; good cheer, good living., beef, biscuit, bun; cornstarch [U.S.]; cookie, cooky [U.S.]; cracker, doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake [U.S.], hominy [U.S.]; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled; remove, entree, entremet, hors d'oeuvre; releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets; kickshaws; condiment., alligator pear, apple, apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey [U.S.]; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash [U.S.], supawn [U.S.], trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut., table, cuisine, bill of fare, menu, table d'hote, ordinary, entree., meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; brunch; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana., mouthful, bolus, gobbet, morsel, sop, sippet., drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup; potion, dram, draught, drench, swill; nip, sip, sup, gulp., wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn, stingo, heavy wet; grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop, wassail; gin (intoxicating liquor); coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates; bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer; Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, maté, mint julep [U.S.]., eating house.
-verbs
eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble., live on; feed upon, batten upon, fatten upon, feast upon; browse, graze, crop, regale; carouse (make merry); eat heartily, do justice to, play a good knife and fork, banquet., break bread, break one's fast; breakfast, lunch, dine, take tea, sup., drink in, drink up, drink one's fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up; lap; swig; swill, tipple (be drunken); empty one's glass, drain the cup; toss off, toss one's glass; wash down, crack a bottle, wet one's whistle., purvey.
-adjectives
eatable, edible, esculent, comestible, alimentary; cereal, cibarious; dietetic; culinary; nutritive, nutritious; gastric; succulent; potable, potulent; bibulous., omnivorous, carnivorous, herbivorous, granivorous, graminivorous, phytivorous; ichthyivorous; omophagic, omophagous; pantophagous, phytophagous, xylophagous
-phrases
"across the walnuts and the wine" [Tennyson]; "blessed hour of our dinners!" [O. Meredith]; "now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!"
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