forage

Meaning of forage

verb
  1. (of a person or animal) search widely for food or provisions.
    the birds forage for aquatic invertebrates, insects, and seeds
noun
  1. food such as grass or hay for horses and cattle; fodder.
  2. a wide search over an area in order to obtain something, especially food or provisions.

Middle English: from Old French fourrage (noun), fourrager (verb), from fuerre ‘straw’, of Germanic origin and related to fodder.

Information about forage

  • The plural form of forage is: forages.
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Hyphenation of forage

for-age

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • forage is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

forage synonyms

Meaning eatage:

eatage, pasture, pasturage, grass

Meaning foraging:

foraging

Meaning scrounge:

scrounge

Meaning food, especially dried hay or straw, for cattle and other livestock:

fodder

Meaning food for domestic animals:

feed

Meaning any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth:

food

Meaning a substance suitable for consumption as food:

foodstuff

Meaning herbaceous vegetation:

herbage

Meaning grass or other green fodder compacted and stored in airtight conditions, typically in a silo, without first being dried, and used as animal feed in the winter:

silage

Meaning grass that has been mown and dried for use as fodder:

hay

Meaning dried stalks of grain, used especially as fodder or as material for thatching, packing, or weaving:

straw

Meaning an item of food:

comestibles

Meaning animal fodder:

provender

Meaning search for and collect (anything usable) from discarded waste:

scavenge

Meaning an act of hunting wild animals or game:

hunt

Meaning an act of searching for someone or something:

search

Meaning an act of directing one's gaze in order to see someone or something:

look

Meaning the action of exploring an unfamiliar area:

exploration

Meaning a long or arduous search for something:

quest

Meaning a soldier or other person sent out ahead of a main force so as to gather information about the enemy's position, strength, or movements:

scout

Meaning a blunt-ended surgical instrument used for exploring a wound or part of the body:

probe

Translation of forage

Words that rhyme with forage

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