Word Meanings - REPAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

L. repascere to feed again; pref. re- re- + pascere, pastum, to 1. The act of taking food. From dance to sweet repast they turn. Milton. 2. That which is taken as food; a meal; figuratively, any refreshment. "Sleep . . . thy best repast." Denham.

Additional info about word: REPAST

L. repascere to feed again; pref. re- re- + pascere, pastum, to 1. The act of taking food. From dance to sweet repast they turn. Milton. 2. That which is taken as food; a meal; figuratively, any refreshment. "Sleep . . . thy best repast." Denham. Go and get me some repast. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REPAST)

• Victuals
• Food
• fare
• provisions
• bread
• viands
• meat
• repast

Related words: (words related to REPAST)

• REPASTURE
  Food; entertainment. Food for his rage, repasture for his den. Shak.
• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• BREADFRUIT
  The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
• BREADTHWISE
  In the direction of the breadth.
• BREADTHLESS
  Without breadth.
• REPAST
  L. repascere to feed again; pref. re- re- + pascere, pastum, to 1. The act of taking food. From dance to sweet repast they turn. Milton. 2. That which is taken as food; a meal; figuratively, any refreshment. "Sleep . . . thy best repast." Denham.
• BREADROOT
  The root of a leguminous plant , found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food. Note: It is the Pomme blanche of Canadian voyageurs.
• BREADSTUFF
  Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.
• REPASTER
  One who takes a repast.
• BREADCORN
  Corn of grain of which bread is made, as wheat, rye, etc.
• BREAD
  To spread. Ray.
• BREADTHWAYS
  Breadthwise. Whewell.
• BREADED
  Braided Spenser.
• VICTUALS
  Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands. Then had we plenty of victuals. Jer. xliv. 17. (more info) pl. victuailles, fr. L. victualia, pl. of.
• BREADLESS
  Without bread; destitude of food. Plump peers and breadless bards alike are dull. P. Whitehead.
• BREADTH
  1. Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width. 2. The quality of having the colors and shadows broad and massive, and the arrangement of objects such as to avoid to great
• BREADWINNER
  The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living. H. Spencer.
• SWINEBREAD
  The truffle.
• SHEWBREAD
  See SHOWBREAD
• WAYBREAD
  The common dooryard plantain .
• GINGERBREAD
  A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. "Gingerbread that was full fine." Chaucer. Gingerbread tree , the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm. --
• FOREPAST
  Bygone. Shak.
• SUBREADER
  An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon. Crabb.
• BEEBREAD
  A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.
• SHOWBREAD
  Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in
• HAIRBREADTH
  Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape.