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Victuals \Vict"uals\ (v[i^]t"'lz), n. pl. [OE. vitaille, OF.
vitaille, F. victuaille, pl. victuailles, fr. L. victualia,
pl. of. victualis belonging to living or nourishment, fr.
victus nourishment, from vivere, victum, to live; akin to
vivus living. See Vivid.]
Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for
the table; that which supports human life; provisions;
sustenance; meat; viands.
[1913 Webster]
Then had we plenty of victuals. --Jer. xliv.
17.
[1913 Webster]
Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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34 Moby Thesaurus words for "victuals":
board, bread, bread and butter, cheer, chow, comestibles,
creature comfort, cuisine, daily bread, eatables, eats, edibles,
fare, fast food, feast, feed, food, food and drink, foodstuff,
grub, health food, ingesta, junk food, kitchen stuff, meat,
provender, provision, provisions, spread, sustenance, table,
tucker, viands, vittles
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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victuals noun
1: a stock or supply of foods [syn: commissariat, provisions,
provender, viands]
2: a source of materials to nourish the body [syn: nutriment,
nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation]
3: any substance that can be used as food [syn: comestible, edible,
eatable, pabulum, victual]
Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
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Victuals \Vict"uals\, n. pl. [OE. vitaille, OF. vitaille, F.
victuaille, pl. victuailles, fr. L. victualia, pl. of.
victualis belonging to living or nourishment, fr. victus
nourishment, from vivere, victum, to live; akin to vivus
living. See Vivid.]
Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for
the table; that which supports human life; provisions;
sustenance; meat; viands.
Then had we plenty of victuals. --Jer. xliv.
17.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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