Victual

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈvɪtÉ™l/Rhymes: -ɪtÉ™l

Alternative forms

• victuall obsolete

Origin

Middle English vitaille, from Late Latin victualia ("provisions"), from victus ("nourishment"), from vīvō ("live, survive").

Full definition of victual

Noun

1. Food fit for human consumption.
• KnollesHe was not able to keep that place three days for lack of victual.
• TennysonThere came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand
  Bare victual for the movers.
2. (Scotland) grain of any kind

Verb

1. (transitive) To provide with food; to provision.
2. (intransitive) To lay in food supplies.
3. (intransitive) To eat.

Related terms

• victualer or victualler