provender
5 synonyms for provender, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — Food, particularly the kind given to farm animals.
Synonyms
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victuals
viands
provisions
commissariat
Etymology
It developed from Middle English provendre, from Old French provendre, a variant of provende ("allowance, provision"), from Late Latin praebenda ("a payment, in Medieval Latin also an allowance of food and drink, pittance, also a prebend"). It is a doublet of prebend.
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