forage
Meaning of forage
verb
- (of a person or animal) search widely for food or provisions.
the birds forage for aquatic invertebrates, insects, and seeds
- food such as grass or hay for horses and cattle; fodder.
- 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.
- Languages in which forage is used:
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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:
Meaning scrounge:
Meaning food, especially dried hay or straw, for cattle and other livestock:
Meaning food for domestic animals:
Meaning any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth:
Meaning a substance suitable for consumption as food:
Meaning herbaceous vegetation:
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:
Meaning grass that has been mown and dried for use as fodder:
Meaning dried stalks of grain, used especially as fodder or as material for thatching, packing, or weaving:
Meaning an item of food:
Meaning animal fodder:
Meaning search for and collect (anything usable) from discarded waste:
Meaning an act of hunting wild animals or game:
Meaning an act of searching for someone or something:
Meaning an act of directing one's gaze in order to see someone or something:
Meaning the action of exploring an unfamiliar area:
Meaning a long or arduous search for something:
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:
Meaning a blunt-ended surgical instrument used for exploring a wound or part of the body:
Translation of forage
Words that rhyme with forage
rage, altarage, arage, arrearage, cellarage, clearage, disparage, garage, hectarage, marage, oarage, parage, sparage, stearage, tarage, tearage, vicarage, Brage, brage, umbrage, bodrage, bordrage, poudrage, acierage, aerage, afterage, amperage, average, beerage, beverage, brokerage, bunkerage, burgherage, butlerage, charterage, cooperage, coverage, culerage, denierage, fiberage, flowerage, fosterage, garnerage, gazetteerage, girderage, hucksterage, interage, layerage, leverage, lighterage
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