Provender Synonyms

prŏv'ən-dər

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Synonyms for Provender

comestible
(Chiefly in the plural) Anything that can be eaten; food. [From 19th c.]
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provision
Provision is defined as a supply of something or to the act of providing a supply of something.
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feed
The act of providing food, especially to an animal:
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provisions
Plural form of provision
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edible
Anything edible.
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esculent
Something edible; a comestible.
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food
(Uncountable, figuratively) Anything intended to supply energy or nourishment of an entity or idea.
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foodstuff
An instance of material which may be used as food.
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nourishment
The act of nourishing or the state of being nourished
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nurture
The sum of environmental influences and conditions acting on an organism, especially in contrast to heredity.
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nutriment
Anything that promotes growth, development, or good health
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nutrition
Anything that nourishes; nourishment; food
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pabulum
Bland intellectual fare; an undemanding diet of words.
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pap
Material lacking real value or substance:
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sustenance
One's means of livelihood; maintenance; support
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victual
(Informal, Dial.) Articles of food, esp. when prepared for use
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chow
The definition of a chow is a breed of Chinese dog, a chow chow, with a thick coat and a black tongue.
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eats
(Slang) Food.
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grub
The short, fat, wormlike larva of certain insects, esp. of a beetle
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fodder
Feed for livestock, especially coarsely chopped hay or straw.
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forage
A search for food or provisions
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viands
Plural form of viand
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commissariat
The department of an army that supplies provisions for the troops.
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victuals
Plural form of victual
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aliment
Means of support; necessity
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bread
Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life:
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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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fare
The usual kind of diet
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meat
(Uncountable) The flesh of an animal used as food. [from 14th c.]
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grain
(Countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
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hay
(Uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
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oats
Plural form of oat
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straw
Pieces or a piece of natural or artificial strawlike material.
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The action of ingesting, or consuming something orally, whether it be food, drink, medicine, or other substance. It is usually referred to as the first step of digestion.
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Provender Sentence Examples

  • Neither food nor provender is supplied.

  • That army, like a herd of cattle run wild and trampling underfoot the provender which might have saved it from starvation, disintegrated and perished with each additional day it remained in Moscow.

  • In 1708 Peter sent Alexius to Smolensk to collect provender and recruits, and thence to Moscow to fortify it against Charles XII.

  • Elijah emerged from his retirement in the third year, when, the famine having reached its worst, Ahab and his minister Obadiah had themselves to search the land for provender for the royal stables.

  • Owing to the silladar system, under which the Indian sowar provided his own horse and provender in return for a monthly wage, the Indian cavalry were almost to a man in debt, and therefore favoured any attempt to upset the existing regime, and with it to wipe out the moneylender and his books; and the general enlistment order passed in July 1856, for the purposes of the war in Persia, made the Hindu sepoys afraid of losing caste by crossing the sea.

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