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Synonyms of food

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Another word for food is feed. Other synonyms of food are fodder, bait, cuisine, nourishment and foodstuff.

Synonyms and similar words for food

nounAny solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to...

  • chow slangFood, especially snacks.
  • comestible formalAnything that can be eaten; food.
  • eats slangFood.
  • feedFood given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
  • fodderFood for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
  • foodstuffA material that may be used as food or as an ingredient of food.
  • grub informalFood.
  • nosh slangFood.
  • nourishmentSomething that nourishes; food.
  • provenderFood, especially for livestock.
  • scran dialectalFood, especially that of an inferior quality; grub.
  • sustenanceSomething that provides support or nourishment.
  • victuals
  • belly-timber archaic, humorousFood, provender.

nounMore synonyms

  • alimentFood.
  • baitAny substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or...
  • comestibles formal
  • cuisineA characteristic manner or style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin.
  • eatables
  • edibles
  • foodstuffs
  • kaiFood.
  • meals
  • munchableAnything edible; a snack.
  • nibblesSmall forms of finger food or snacks such as nuts or potato chips (crisps), often eaten as an accompaniment to drinks.
  • nosebag informalFood or feeding.
  • om nom nomTasty food.
  • provisions
  • rations
  • stodgeHeavy, dull, often starchy food, such as a steamed pudding.
  • tiffin India
  • tuckerFood; tuck.
  • vittles colloquial
  • meat archaicThe flesh (muscle tissue) of a killed animal used as food.
  • tuck datedFood, especially snack food.
  • viands archaicProvisions, victuals.

Meaning of food

  1. noun Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
  2. noun A foodstuff, a type of food.
  3. noun Anything that nourishes or sustains.

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Questions about synonyms of food

What is another word for food?
Food has 36 synonyms on Word.ws, such as feed, fodder, bait, cuisine, nourishment, foodstuff, nibbles and stodge.
What does food mean?
Food means any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: food (page history and authors) and the entries of the words listed. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws grouped the synonyms and antonyms by meaning and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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