essen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- chow noun Informal: food, especially a meal or snack.
- comestible adj Suitable to be eaten; edible.
- eat verb To take food into the mouth and swallow it.
- eating noun The act of consuming food.
- Essen name A large industrial city in western Germany, historically important for coal and steel production.
- food noun Any substance eaten or drunk to sustain life and provide energy.
- fret verb To worry or feel anxious about something.
- meal noun Food prepared and eaten together, typically at a set time of day.
Senses
essen is used for these senses in English:
- Essen A major industrial city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany.
- chow (slang, South Africa) To eat.
- comestible (chiefly, in the plural) Anything that can be eaten; food. [From 19th c.]
- eat To ingest; to be ingested.
- eat (copulative, intransitive) To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").
- food (uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
- fret (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- meal (countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).
chow — full definition
- noun Informal: food, especially a meal or snack.
- noun Short for Chow Chow, a fluffy Chinese dog breed known for its blue-black tongue.
- verb Informal: to eat, especially heartily ("chow down").