Synonyms of the word

provender

• n. Food, especially for livestock.
• n. An edible material that provides sustenance.

commissariat

• n. A supply of food.
• n. The department of an army that supplies provisions for the troops.
• n. (historical) A department of the government of the Soviet Union in the early period of its existence.
• n. A territorial and governmental unit of Colombia at some points in its history.

feed

• v. (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
• v. (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
• v. (transitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
• v. (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
• v. (figuratively) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
• v. To supply with something.
• v. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
• v. (sports, transitive) To pass to.
• v. (phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply.
• n. (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
• n. Something supplied continuously.
• n. The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
• n. (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity.
• n. (Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of fee.

food

• n. (uncountable) Any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to…
• n. (countable) A foodstuff.
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains.

nutrient

• n. A source of nourishment, such as food, that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build…
• adj. providing nourishment.

provisions

• n. plural of provision.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of provision.

viands

• n. plural of viand.
• n. provisions, victuals.

victuals

• n. plural of victual.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of victual.