Nearby Words
victuals
| Main Entry: |
victuals
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food supplies |
| Synonyms: | aliment, bread, chow, comestibles, eatables, eats, edibles, fare, feed, foodstuff, goodies, groceries, grub, larder, meal, nourishment, provender, provisions, rations, refreshments, snack, supplies, viands, vittles |
| 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: | diet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daily intake of food |
| Synonyms: | aliment, bite, comestibles, commons, daily bread, edibles, fare, goodies, grubbery, menu, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, provisions, rations, snack, subsistence, sustenance, viands, victuals |
| Main Entry: | eats |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
| Synonyms: | chow, comestibles, eatables, fare, grub, meals, nosh, nourishment, nutriment, provisions, rations, snacks, sustenance, tidbits, victuals, vittles |
| 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: | grub |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
| Synonyms: | chow, comestibles, eats, edibles, feed, nosh, nurture, provisions, rations, sustenance, viands, victuals, vittles |
| Main Entry: | nourishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
| Synonyms: | aliment, diet, feed, foodstuff, home cooking, maintenance, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pap, provender, support, sustenance, viands, victuals, vittles |
| Antonyms: | deprivation, starvation |
| Main Entry: | nurture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, nourishment |
| Synonyms: | breeding, care, diet, discipline, edibles, education, feed, food, instruction, nutriment, provender, provisions, rearing, subsistence, sustenance, training, upbringing, viands, victuals |
| Notes: | cherish means to be fond of, be attached to, while nurture means to bring up, help develop, help grow, or provide with nourishment |
| Antonyms: | deprivation, ignorance, neglect, starvation |
| Main Entry: | nutrition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
| Synonyms: | diet, dietetics, menu, nourishment, nutriment, subsistence, sustenance, victuals |
| Antonyms: | deprivation, starvation |
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