"foodstuff" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈfuːdˌstʌf/ [US] Audio: En-us-foodstuff.ogg [US] Forms: foodstuffs [plural]
Etymology: food + stuff Etymology templates: {{compound|en|food|stuff}} food + stuff Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} foodstuff (countable and uncountable, plural foodstuffs)
  1. A material that may be used as food. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Food and drink Translations (material that may be used as food): սննդամթերք (snndamtʻerkʻ) (Armenian), մթերք (mtʻerkʻ) (Armenian), aliment [masculine] (Catalan), 食品 (shípǐn) (Chinese Mandarin), 食物 (shíwù) (Chinese Mandarin), 食材 (shícái) (Chinese Mandarin), potravina [feminine] (Czech), fødevare [common-gender] (Danish), levnedsmiddel [neuter] (Danish), madvare [common-gender] (Danish), voedingswaren (Dutch), levensmiddelen (Dutch), voedsel [neuter] (Dutch), nutraĵo (Esperanto), elintarvike (Finnish), aliment [masculine] (French), alimento [masculine] (Galician), საკვები პროდუქტი (saḳvebi ṗrodukṭi) (Georgian), Nahrungsmittel [neuter] (German), élelmiszer (Hungarian), derrata [feminine] (Italian), 食品 (shokuhin) (Japanese), 干物 (himono) (Japanese), 식품 (sikpum) (Korean), næringsmiddel [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), næringsmiddel [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), artykuł żywnościowy [masculine] (Polish), alimento [feminine] (Portuguese), пищево́й проду́кт (piščevój prodúkt) [masculine] (Russian), проду́кт пита́ния (prodúkt pitánija) [masculine] (Russian), намирница [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), namirnica [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), nutriente [masculine] (Spanish), alimento [masculine] (Spanish), födoämne [neuter] (Swedish), lamantiyan (Tagalog), ของกิน (kɔ̌ɔng-gin) (Thai), thực phẩm (Vietnamese)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "material that may be used as food",
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          "lang": "Thai",
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          "sense": "material that may be used as food",
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      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
      "word": "食品"
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      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
      "word": "食物"
    },
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
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      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
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      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
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      "word": "nutraĵo"
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      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
      "word": "elintarvike"
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      "word": "alimento"
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
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      "word": "საკვები პროდუქტი"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Nahrungsmittel"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
      "word": "élelmiszer"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
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      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "sikpum",
      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
      "word": "식품"
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
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      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
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      "word": "artykuł żywnościowy"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
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      "word": "alimento"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "piščevój prodúkt",
      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prodúkt pitánija",
      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "проду́кт пита́ния"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
      "tags": [
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        "feminine"
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    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "namirnica"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "nutriente"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "alimento"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "födoämne"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
      "word": "lamantiyan"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "kɔ̌ɔng-gin",
      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
      "word": "ของกิน"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "material that may be used as food",
      "word": "thực phẩm"
    }
  ],
  "word": "foodstuff"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.