feed – English noun declension

English noun forms of feed

Noun: feed
Singularfeed
Pluralfeeds

Sample Sentences

  • They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
  • a satellite feed
  • the paper feed of a printer
  • 184?, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor
  • One proposed going to Hungerford-market to do a feed on decayed shrimps or other offal laying about the market; another proposed going to Covent-garden to do a 'tightener' of rotten oranges, to which I was humorously invited; […]
  • "There won't be any more blessed concerts for a million years or so; there won't be any Royal Academy of Arts, and no nice little feeds at restaurants." [1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 257:]
  • ‘Still hungry! Well, we’ll see if Larry can find you a feed of beef when the billy’s boiled.’ [1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 111:]
  • They held a crab feed on the beach.
  • I've subscribed to the feeds of my favourite blogs, so I can find out when new posts are added without having to visit those sites.
  • Refresh the top of your various “feeds” — the running column of content on some versions of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram — and you will see the latest news at the top. The further back you scroll, the older the material gets. [2016 March 15, Mike Isaac, “Instagram May Change Your Feed, Personalizing It With an Algorithm”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
  • I use Native, that’s what other Native people on Facebook use. I have 660 friends. Tons of Native friends in my feed. Most of my friends, though, are people I don’t know, who’d happily friended me upon request. [2018, Tommy Orange, “Edwin Black”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 69:]
  • Despite spending years studying these toxic dynamics and the better part of a month watching them up close in strangers’ feeds, I was still, like so many, surprised to see it all reflected at the ballot box. We shouldn’t have been surprised; our divisions have been in front of our faces and inside our feeds this whole time. [2020 November 24, Charlie Warzel, “What Facebook Fed the Baby Boomers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
  • Don Ward is often described as a former comic, having some experience in this area as a young man, acting as a feed for the comic actor David Lodge at Parkins Holiday Camp in Jersey […] [2020, Oliver Double, Alternative Comedy: 1979 and the Reinvention of British Stand-Up, page 38:]

Etymology

From Middle English fede, fed, from the verb (see above). Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse fœða (“nourishment, food”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną (“to feed”), whence also Old English fēdan (“to feed”). See: Middle English Nouns 'fede', Old Norse Nouns 'fǿða', Old English Nouns 'fēdan'.

Verbs referencing "feed"

Dutch Nouns feed.