food

Pronunciation: /fuːd/

The English word “food” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

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

Etymology

From Middle English fode, foode, from Old English fōda (“food”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdō, from Proto-Germanic *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with Scots fuid (“food”), Low German föde, vöde (“food”), West Frisian fiedsel (“food”), Dutch voedsel (“food”) Danish føde (“food”), Swedish föda (“food”), Icelandic fæða, fæði (“food”), Gothic…

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