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sustenance
Something that sustains something else; essential support:
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  1. Something that sustains something else; essential support:
  2. One's means of livelihood; maintenance; support
  3. Something, especially food, that sustains life or health:
nutrition
A source of nourishment; food.
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  1. A source of nourishment; food.
  2. The scientific study of food and nourishment, including food composition, dietary guidelines, and the roles that various nutrients have in maintaining health.
  3. The science or study of proper, balanced diet to promote health, esp. in human beings
diet
A program or plan consisting of a special or limited selection of food and drink and designed to promote health or a gain or loss of weight; specif., such a program or plan designed to promote weight loss
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  1. A program or plan consisting of a special or limited selection of food and drink and designed to promote health or a gain or loss of weight; specif., such a program or plan designed to promote weight loss
  2. The food and drink such a plan prescribes
  3. Something used, enjoyed, or provided regularly:
aliment
Something that supports or sustains.
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  1. Something that supports or sustains.
  2. Means of support; necessity
  3. Anything that nourishes; food
bread
Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life:
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  1. Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life:
  2. A staple food made from flour or meal mixed with other dry and liquid ingredients, usually combined with a leavening agent, and kneaded, shaped into loaves, and baked.
  3. Food generally
comestible
Something that can be eaten as food:
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  1. Something that can be eaten as food:
  2. Food
diet
A program or plan consisting of a special or limited selection of food and drink and designed to promote health or a gain or loss of weight; specif., such a program or plan designed to promote weight loss
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  1. A program or plan consisting of a special or limited selection of food and drink and designed to promote health or a gain or loss of weight; specif., such a program or plan designed to promote weight loss
  2. Something used, enjoyed, or provided regularly:
  3. The food and drink such a plan prescribes
edible
Anything fit to be eaten; food
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  1. Anything fit to be eaten; food
esculent
Something fit for food, esp. a vegetable
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  1. Something fit for food, esp. a vegetable
fare
Food available to be eaten
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  1. Food available to be eaten
  2. The usual kind of diet
  3. Food and drink; diet:
food
Material, especially carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, that an organism uses for energy, growth, and maintaining the processes of life. Plants, algae, and some bacteria make their own food through photosynthesis, while animals and most other organisms obtain food by consuming other organisms or organic matter.
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  1. Material, especially carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, that an organism uses for energy, growth, and maintaining the processes of life. Plants, algae, and some bacteria make their own food through photosynthesis, while animals and most other organisms obtain food by consuming other organisms or organic matter.
  2. Something that nourishes or sustains in a way suggestive of physical nourishment:
  3. A specified kind of nourishment:
foodstuff
An instance of material which may be used as food.
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  1. An instance of material which may be used as food.
  2. Any substance used as food
meat
The essence, substance, or gist:
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  1. The essence, substance, or gist:
  2. The flesh of animals used as food, esp. the flesh of mammals or, often, of fowl
  3. Food; esp., solid food, as distinguished from drink
nourishment
A nourishing or being nourished
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  1. A nourishing or being nourished
  2. The act of nourishing or the state of being nourished
  3. Something that nourishes; food; nutriment
nurture
(--- Biology) The sum of environmental influences and conditions acting on an organism, especially in contrast to heredity.
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  1. (--- Biology) The sum of environmental influences and conditions acting on an organism, especially in contrast to heredity.
  2. The act or process of raising or promoting the development of; training, educating, fostering, etc.
  3. Anything that nourishes; food; nutriment
nutriment
Anything that promotes growth, development, or good health
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  1. Anything that promotes growth, development, or good health
  2. Anything that nourishes; food
  3. A source of nourishment; food.
nutrition
Anything that nourishes; nourishment; food
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  1. Anything that nourishes; nourishment; food
  2. The scientific study of food and nourishment, including food composition, dietary guidelines, and the roles that various nutrients have in maintaining health.
  3. A source of nourishment; food.
pap
Any oversimplified or bland writing, ideas, etc.
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  1. Any oversimplified or bland writing, ideas, etc.
  2. Material lacking real value or substance:
  3. Any soft or semiliquid food for babies or invalids
provender
Dry food, such as hay, used as feed for livestock.
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  1. Dry food, such as hay, used as feed for livestock.
  2. Food or provisions.
provision
A clause, as in a legal document, agreement, etc., stipulating or requiring some specific thing; proviso; condition
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  1. A clause, as in a legal document, agreement, etc., stipulating or requiring some specific thing; proviso; condition
  2. The act of making preparations for a possible or future event or situation:
  3. Necessary supplies, such as food and clothing, as for a journey.
sustenance
Something that sustains something else; essential support:
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  1. Something that sustains something else; essential support:
  2. One's means of livelihood; maintenance; support
  3. Something, especially food, that sustains life or health:
victual
(Informal, Dial.) Articles of food, esp. when prepared for use
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  1. (Informal, Dial.) Articles of food, esp. when prepared for use
  2. (Now Chiefly Dial.) Food or other provisions
chow
Any of a breed of medium-sized dog, originally from China, with a thick, dark coat and a blue-black tongue
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  1. Any of a breed of medium-sized dog, originally from China, with a thick, dark coat and a blue-black tongue
  2. (Slang) Food or mealtime
eats
(Slang) Food.
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  1. (Slang) Food.
  2. Food, especially snacks.
grub
The thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects.
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  1. The thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects.
  2. (Old, Informal) A person who does menial or tedious work; drudge
  3. (Slang) Food.
aliment
Something that supports or sustains.
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  1. Something that supports or sustains.
  2. Means of support; necessity
  3. Anything that nourishes; food
bread
Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life:
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  1. Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life:
  2. A food baked from a leavened, kneaded dough made with flour or meal, water, yeast, etc.
  3. Food generally
food
Material, especially carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, that an organism uses for energy, growth, and maintaining the processes of life. Plants, algae, and some bacteria make their own food through photosynthesis, while animals and most other organisms obtain food by consuming other organisms or organic matter.
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  1. Material, especially carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, that an organism uses for energy, growth, and maintaining the processes of life. Plants, algae, and some bacteria make their own food through photosynthesis, while animals and most other organisms obtain food by consuming other organisms or organic matter.
  2. Something that nourishes or sustains in a way suggestive of physical nourishment:
  3. A specified kind of nourishment:
nourishment
The act of nourishing or the state of being nourished
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  1. The act of nourishing or the state of being nourished
  2. A nourishing or being nourished
  3. Something that nourishes; food; nutriment
nutriment
Anything that promotes growth, development, or good health
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  1. Anything that promotes growth, development, or good health
  2. Anything that nourishes; food
  3. A source of nourishment; food.
pap
Any oversimplified or bland writing, ideas, etc.
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  1. Any oversimplified or bland writing, ideas, etc.
  2. Material lacking real value or substance:
  3. Any soft or semiliquid food for babies or invalids
sustenance
Something that sustains something else; essential support:
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  1. Something that sustains something else; essential support:
  2. One's means of livelihood; maintenance; support
  3. Something, especially food, that sustains life or health:
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Sentence Examples

  • But it also appears that honeydew may be excreted by ordinary processes of over-turgescence pressing the liquid through water-pores, as in the tropical Caesalpinia, Calliandra, &c. That these exudations on leaves should afterwards serve as pabulum for Fungie.g.

  • It is not that human needs are to be disregarded, but that the pabulum which he now sees that humanity really requires is of an incomparably higher order than that which is generally so considered.

  • In health the blood and internal tissues are bacterium-free; after death they offer a most suitable pabulum for various bacteria; but between these two extremes lie states of varying liability to infection.

  • Its nutritive pabulum is supplied to it in the shape of certain complex organic substances which have been stored in some part or other of the seed, sometimes even in its own tissues, by the parent plant from which it springs.

  • For these dangerous and divisive elements the legislation proposed in the Race Relations Bill is the very pabulum they need to flourish.

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