Cereal
adj, name, noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains. countable
- 2 a breakfast food prepared from grain wordnet
- 3 The grains of such a grass. uncountable
- 4 foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses wordnet
- 5 Breakfast cereal. uncountable
"Would you like some cereal?"
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- 6 grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet wordnet
- 1 Of or relating to cereal. not-comparable
"Wheat .. is, of all the cereal seeds, the best adapted to the making of bread."
- 2 Of or relating to the goddess Ceres.
"By means of statues and coinage depicting his wife Livia in the guise of Ceres and himself in the Cereal crown of the Arval Brethren, Augustus implied that his own godlike charisma helped keep the plebeians fed […]"
- 1 made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it wordnet
- 1 A village in Alberta, Canada.
Example
More examples"What the hell? That guy got his license from a cereal box!"
Etymology
Borrowed from French céréale (“having to do with cereal”), from Latin Cerealis (“of or relating to Ceres”), from Ceres (“Roman goddess of agriculture”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“grow”), from which also Latin sincerus (English sincere) and Latin crēscō (“grow”) (English crescent).
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