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Nourishment vs Provender - What's the difference?

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Nourishment is a related term of provender.


As nouns the difference between nourishment and provender

is that nourishment is the act of nourishing or the state of being nourished while provender is food, especially for livestock.

nourishment

English

Noun

  • the act of nourishing or the state of being nourished
  • something that nourishes; food

    • provender

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Food, especially for livestock.
  • * 1663 ,
    • He ripp'd the womb up of his mother, / Dame Tellus, 'cause he wanted fother, / And provender , wherewith to feed / Himself and his less cruel steed.
  • An edible material that provides sustenance.

    • Synonyms

    * (animal food) fodder

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