VIANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does viands mean? 

• VIANDS (noun)
  The noun VIANDS has 1 sense:

1. a stock or supply of foods

  Familiarity information: VIANDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stock or supply of foods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

commissariat; provender; provisions; viands; victuals

Hypernyms ("viands" is a kind of...):

food; nutrient (any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "viands"):

food cache (food in a secure or hidden storage place)

larder (a supply of food especially for a household)

 Context examples 

They possessed a delightful house (for such it was in my eyes) and every luxury; they had a fire to warm them when chill and delicious viands when hungry; they were dressed in excellent clothes; and, still more, they enjoyed one another’s company and speech, interchanging each day looks of affection and kindness.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Of there being a breakfast, with abundance of things, pretty and substantial, to eat and drink, whereof I partake, as I should do in any other dream, without the least perception of their flavour; eating and drinking, as I may say, nothing but love and marriage, and no more believing in the viands than in anything else.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Poor little souls, they will have a hard time, I'm afraid, but they won't suffer, and it will do them good, she said, producing the more palatable viands with which she had provided herself, and disposing of the bad breakfast, so that their feelings might not be hurt, a motherly little deception for which they were grateful.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I begged him to do me the favour of presiding; and my request being seconded by the other boys who were in that room, he acceded to it, and sat upon my pillow, handing round the viands—with perfect fairness, I must say—and dispensing the currant wine in a little glass without a foot, which was his own property.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)