A spoon is an object used for eating, stirring, and serving food. One end of it is shaped like a shallow bowl and it has a long handle.

You can refer to an amount of food resting on a spoon as a spoon of food.

If you spoon food into something, you put it there with a spoon.

If you think that someone has a lot of advantages because they have a rich or influential family, you can say that they have been born with a silver spoon in their mouth .