Crossword-Solution: FOOD 4 letters, 231 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Food	n.	What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.
Food	n.	Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.
Food	v. t.	To supply with food.

We have 231 clues for the answer “FOOD”

Clue	Answers
"Comfort" or "junk" follower	1 answer
"Fish are friends, not ___" (line from "Finding Nemo")	1 answer
"I am not a glutton — I am an explorer of ___": Erma Bombeck	1 answer
"Waiters do not put the big silver dome over our ___ before serving it anymore because of politics culture" (@dril tweet)	1 answer
A substance used to sustain life and growth	1 answer
Anything edible	1 answer
Anything that's edible	1 answer
Anything to eat	1 answer
Bamboo shoots, for pandas	1 answer
Blueberries, beefsteaks, etc.	1 answer
Body fuel	1 answer
Cafeteria fight ammo	1 answer
Cafeteria fight weapon	1 answer
Cat or dog follower	1 answer
Child subject	1 answer
Course materials?	1 answer
EATABLES	1 answer
Eat it	1 answer
Eats, formally	1 answer
Epicure's passion	1 answer
Every restaurant has it	1 answer
FAO gift.	1 answer
Famine relief	1 answer
Fare-trayed merchandise?	1 answer
Feast feature	1 answer
Fish or meat.	1 answer
Fridge filler	1 answer
Gayelord Hauser's subject.	1 answer
Grocery offering	1 answer
Grocery store stock	1 answer
In the military it's messy?	1 answer
It may be fast	1 answer
It's for thought	1 answer
It's of alimentary importance	1 answer
It's picked up in a mess	1 answer
It's sometimes "junk"	1 answer
Item of thought?	1 answer
Kind of pyramid	1 answer
Liverwurst or fruitcake	1 answer
Menu fare	1 answer
Mimi Sheraton subject	1 answer
Nutrition	1 answer
One of life's necessities	1 answer
One of man's basic needs	1 answer
One of the bare necessities	1 answer
Predator-and-prey cycle	1 answer
Pyramid makeup?	1 answer
Rations, for example	1 answer
Slicing and dicing, say	1 answer
Some is fast	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EAERT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with FOOD (5)

Did they really feel hungry at times, or were they merely pretending, because Peter had such a jolly new way of feeding them? His way was to pursue birds who had food in their mouths suitable for humans and snatch it from them; then the birds would follow and snatch it back; and they would all go chasing each other gaily for miles, parting at last with mutual expressions of good-will.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Shingebis, the diver, feared not, Shingebis, the diver, cared not; Four great logs had he for firewood, One for each moon of the winter, And for food the fishes served him.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

Heav’nly stranger, please to taste These bounties which our Nourisher, from whom All perfet good unmeasur’d out, descends, To us for food and for delight hath caus’d The Earth to yeild; unsavourie food perhaps To spiritual Natures; only this I know, That one Celestial Father gives to all.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

The Ass And The Grasshopper AN ASS having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful voices.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Here, too, the slaves of all the other farms received their monthly allowance of food, and their yearly clothing.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

Quotes with FOOD (3)

They served "Good Food" but only a G, an O and a D were lit up. Personally, I doubted God dined there. Unless God was keen on samonella poisoning and rat droppings in the hamburgers. But then again, what did I know?

Julie Kenner Torn

It was after I first began to uplift my thoughts a bit that my cravings for junk food started to dissipate. I did not connect the two at that time. First, I simply noticed that I didn’t need to sleep so much. It took a while before I realized that in addition to my improved energy level, there was a direct correlation between chewing on mental garbage and putting garbage in my mouth.

Holly Mosier

And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes. A novel for me is an immersive experience …

George R.R. Martin

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 166 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).