food
/fuːd/ noun A1- Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life. · The innkeeper brought them food and drink.
- A foodstuff, a type of food.
- Anything that nourishes or sustains. · The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought.· Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
- Any illegal substance or illegal substances, drugs.
Plural foods
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A LION, unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself with food by force, resolved to do so by artifice.
But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished.
A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed by and earnestly begged for a little food.
The Ants inquired of him, “Why did you not treasure up food during the summer?” He replied, “I had not leisure enough.
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