English-Portuguese translations for food

• alimento
  Novos alimentos e ingredientes alimentares Novel foods and food ingredients
  O leite é um alimento valioso e saudável. Milk is a valuable and healthy food.
  Um segundo aspecto prende-se com os alimentos. My second point concerns food.
• comida
  Surgiu, agora, uma nova expressão - "o fim da comida barata”. Now a new term has appeared - 'the end of cheap food'.
  Também realizamos projectos do tipo "comida a troco de trabalho" . We also carry out Food-for-Work projects.
  E esses eram os afortunados: eram os que tinham comida. They were the lucky ones: they were the ones with food.

Definition of food

• Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life
• A foodstuff
• Anything that nourishes or sustains

Synonyms

• chow
• comestible
• eats
• feed
• fodder
• foodstuff
• nosh
• nourishment
• provender
• sustenance
• victuals

Examples

• The innkeeper brought them food and drink
• The mans inspiring speech gave us food for thought
• Mozart and Bach are food for my soul

Related words

• foodstuff
• seafood
• dogfood
• foodstuffs
• foodie
• agri-food
• superfood
• foodless
• foodshed