Food definition
Food is a noun meaning "any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue." It has 3 meanings, listed below with an example sentence.
- Part of speech
- noun
- Syllables
- 1
- Letters
- 4
- How common
- Everyday word
Food as a noun
any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
Same sense: nutrient
any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment
"food and drink"
Same sense: solid food
anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking
Same sense: food for thought, intellectual nourishment
Synonyms and antonyms
- nutrient
- solid food
- food for thought
- intellectual nourishment
How to say food
Food has 1 syllable and rhymes with include. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
Words that rhyme with food
- include
- dude
- attitude
- mood
- viewed
- rude
- reviewed
- renewed
- screwed
- interviewed
- crude
- magnitude
FOOD in word games
- Scrabble
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Anagrams
- 0
Is FOOD a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check FOOD in the word checker, or unscramble FOOD to see the shorter words in its letters.
Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.