noun. Material, usually of plant or animal origin, that contains or consists of essential body nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals, and is ingested and assimilated by an organism to produce energy, stimulate growth, and maintain life.

noun. A specified kind of nourishment.

noun. Nourishment eaten in solid form.

noun. Something that nourishes or sustains in a way suggestive of physical nourishment.

To feed; supply; figuratively, to soothe; flatter; entertain with promises.

noun. An improper form of feud.

noun. What is eaten for nourishment; whatever supplies nourishment to organic bodies; nutriment; aliment; victuals; provisions: as, the food of animals consists mainly of organic substances; a great scarcity of food; the food of plants.

noun. Hence Anything that sustains, nourishes, and augments.

noun. Anything serving as material for consumption or use.

noun. A person fed or brought up; a person, as a child, under nurture; in an extended sense, any person; a creature.

noun. Synonyms Provender, etc. (see feed, n.); sustenance, fare, cheer, viands.

transitive verb. To supply with food.

noun. What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.

noun. Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.

noun. one of the spaces in the interior of a protozoan in which food is contained, during digestion.

noun. See under Yolk.

noun. Any substance that is or can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.

noun. Anything intended to supply energy or nourishment of an entity or idea.

noun. A foodstuff.

noun. any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue

noun. anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking

noun. any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment

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