Grain

/ɡɹeɪn/

Synonyms for "grain" (404 found)

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Closest matches (81)

Noun(8 words)

texture abrasives axseed buckwheat caryopsis cereal cereals corns

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bit bloodbody buildbody-build bran brand braybreak upbreccia brecciate breedbrush on paintcalcimine cane castcat foodcerealcereal plantcharacter characteristic characteristicschicken feedchop clan class coarsen coat colorcome to dustcomminute complexion composition constituents constitution contriturate corn cover crasis crumb crumblecrumble into dustcrumble to dustcrush dab daub debris deep-dye denomination description designation detritus dharma

Adjective(1 words)

artistic texture

Strong matches (121)

diathesis dip disintegrate disposition distemperdog fooddole dot double-dye dram dribble driblet drop droplet dwarf dye dyne eatage eccentricity effloresce

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emblazon enamel engild ensilage ethos facefall to dustfall to piecesfarinaceous plantfarthing fast-dye feather feed feel fiber finish flaxseed fleck flour flyspeck fodder fog forageforage grassforce form fragment frame fresco fruit genius genre genus gild glaze gloss gnat gobbetgraminaceous plantgranular texturegranulate granule granulet granulize grass grate gravel grindgrind to powdergrist grit groat habit hair handful hay hayseed hint hue humor humors idiosyncrasy ilk illuminate imbue inclination indentation individualism ingrain iota japan jot kernel kidney kilo kin kind knub label lacquerlawn grasslay on colorleaning levigate line linseed littlelittle bit

Noun(10 words)

finishfood graingraining granulate granule granules grao hegari kernel kernels

Verb(3 words)

fuzzed granulate ingrain

Related words (202)

lot lota make makeup manner mark mash mass mealmental setmettle microbe microorganism midge mill mind mind-set minim minimum minutia

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minutiae mite modicum mold molecule morsel mote mould moulder mouldy nap nature nub number nut nutshell oatsornamental grassounce paint parget particle pasturage pasture pattern pebble persuasion pestlepet foodphylum physique pigment pile pinch pinhead pinpoint pip pit pittance pock point pound powder predilection predisposition preference prime proclivity propensity property protuberance provender pulverize quality racereduce to powderreed roughen rush sand scintilla scrap scratchscratch feedscrunch scruple seed set shade shadow shag shape shard shellac shingle shred silage slantslop on paintslops smash smear smidgen smidgin smitch smooth snip snippet somatotype sort soupcon species speck spirit spoonful spot squash stain stamp stipple stone strain straw streak stripe structure style suchness suggestion surfacesurface textureswill system taste temper temperament tendency tenor texturethe like ofthe likes ofthimbleful tinct tincture tinge tinttiny bittittle tone tooth trace tribetrifling amounttriturate trivia turnturn of mindtwist type undercoat unitvanishing pointvariety varnish vein wale warp wash way weave weight wheat whit whitewash woof

Noun(25 words)

metric grainmillet mites mote particulate reap rice rices rye seed seeds siliqua smidgesolid particle surfacesorgho speck specking speckles teff textures

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texturize trace treatunit weightweight unit

Adjective(2 words)

pebbled speckled

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

41 entries

amountapothecaries' unitapothecaries' weightatomavoirdupois unitcerealcereal grasschange formchange shapecomposition constitution corpuscle deformfood productfoodstuff form

Showing 16 of 41 words.

More specific

15 entries

barley grainbitdigital graindramfilm graingrained leathergrained woodgramoat grainounce pinchrice grainsmidge tadwheat grain

Collocations

12 entries

film graingrain finishgrain marketgrain of sandgrain of truthgrain patterngrain sizegrain texturegrain yieldleather grainwhole grainswood grain

Inflections

3 entries

grained graining grains

Derivations

10 entries

grainily graininess graining grainy granary granular granulate granulation granule regrain

Translations

162 translations across 96 languages.

Akkadian

1 entries

𒊺 noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Albanian

1 entries

drithë noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Ancient Greek

2 entries

σῖτος noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
ἀκτή noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Arabic

1 entries

حَبَة noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Armenian

1 entries

հացահատիկ noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Aromanian

1 entries

grãn noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

dən noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Bashkir

1 entries

ярма noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Basque

3 entries

ale noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
bihi noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
garau noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Belarusian

3 entries

жы́та noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
збо́жжа noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
зерне́ noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Bengali

1 entries

শস্য noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Bulgarian

2 entries

гран noun (unit of mass notionally based on grain's weight)
зърно́ noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Burmese

1 entries

အဆန် noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Catalan

2 entries

gra noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
gra noun (unit of mass notionally based on grain's weight)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

穀物 /谷物 noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
穀類 /谷类 noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
糧食 /粮食 noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Czech

3 entries

grán noun (unit of mass notionally based on grain's weight)
zrno noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
zrní noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Dalmatian

1 entries

grun noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Danish

1 entries

korn noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Dutch

3 entries

graan noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
grein noun (unit of mass notionally based on grain's weight)
koren noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Egyptian

1 entries

sSr-Z1-U9:Z2ss noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Esperanto

2 entries

grano noun (unit of mass notionally based on grain's weight)
greno noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Estonian

2 entries

tera noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
teravili noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Finnish

3 entries

graani noun (unit of mass notionally based on grain's weight)
jyvät noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
vilja noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

French

1 entries

grain noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Galician

4 entries

gran noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
gran noun (unit of mass notionally based on grain's weight)
grao noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
grao noun (unit of mass notionally based on grain's weight)

Georgian

1 entries

მარცვალი noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

German

4 entries

Getreide noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
Gran noun (unit of mass notionally based on grain's weight)
Grän noun (unit of mass notionally based on grain's weight)
Korn noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Gothic

1 entries

𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Greek

2 entries

δημητριακά noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
σιτηρά noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Haitian Creole

1 entries

grenn noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Hebrew

1 entries

בָּר noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Hindi

3 entries

अनाज noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
अन्न noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
धान्य noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Hungarian

2 entries

gabona noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
szemer noun (unit of mass notionally based on grain's weight)

Icelandic

1 entries

korn noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Irish

1 entries

grán noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Italian

1 entries

seme noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Japanese

2 entries

穀物 noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
穀類 noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Javanese

1 entries

wiji noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Kazakh

2 entries

астық noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
дән noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Khiamniungan Naga

1 entries

vêi noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Khmer

1 entries

គ្រាប់ noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Korean

1 entries

곡물 noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Kumyk

3 entries

ашлыкъ noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
бюртюк noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
урлукъ noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

дан noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Ladin

1 entries

blava noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Lao

1 entries

ເມັດ noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Latgalian

2 entries

gryudi noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
maize noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Latin

1 entries

frūmentum noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Latvian

2 entries

graudi noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
labība noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Lingala

1 entries

mbuma noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Lithuanian

2 entries

grūdai noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
javai noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Low German

1 entries

Koorn noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Macedonian

1 entries

жи́то noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Malay

1 entries

biji noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Marathi

1 entries

धान्य noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Megleno-Romanian

1 entries

grǫn noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Mongolian

3 entries

будаа noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
ширхэг noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
үр noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Ngombe (Congo)

1 entries

mbuma noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Norwegian

1 entries

korn noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Occitan

1 entries

gran noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Old Church Slavonic

2 entries

жито noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
зрьно noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Old English

1 entries

corn noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Old Irish

1 entries

grán noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Oromo

1 entries

mindhaan noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Ossetian

1 entries

нӕмыг noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Persian

2 entries

خرمن noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
غلات noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Polabian

1 entries

zaitü noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Polish

3 entries

gran noun (unit of mass notionally based on grain's weight)
zboże noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
ziarno noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Portuguese

2 entries

grão noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
grão noun (unit of mass notionally based on grain's weight)

Romanian

1 entries

grăunte noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Russian

3 entries

гран noun (unit of mass notionally based on grain's weight)
жи́то noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
зерно́ noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Sanskrit

2 entries

कण noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
धान्य noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

gràn noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

zȑno noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
žȉto noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
жи̏то noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
зр̏но noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Sidamo

1 entries

gide noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Slovak

1 entries

zrno noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Slovene

2 entries

zrno noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
žito noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Southern Altai

1 entries

аш noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Spanish

2 entries

grano noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
grano noun (unit of mass notionally based on grain's weight)

Swahili

2 entries

kilo noun (unit of mass notionally based on grain's weight)
nafaka noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Swedish

3 entries

gran noun (unit of mass notionally based on grain's weight)
spannmål noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
säd noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Tagalog

2 entries

butil noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
grano noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Tajik

2 entries

дон noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
ғалла noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Tatar

2 entries

ашлык noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
бөртек noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Thai

4 entries

ธัญ noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
เกรน noun (unit of mass notionally based on grain's weight)
เมล็ด noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
เม็ด noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Tigrinya

1 entries

እኽሊ noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Tocharian B

2 entries

tāno noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
ysāre noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Turkish

1 entries

tahıl noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Turkmen

3 entries

digir noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
däne noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
galla noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Ukrainian

3 entries

жи́то noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
збі́жжя noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
зерно́ noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Urdu

1 entries

اناج noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Uzbek

2 entries

don noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
gʻalla noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Vietnamese

1 entries

ngũ cốc noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Welsh

2 entries

grawn noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
ŷd noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Zazaki

2 entries

xerman noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)
ğele (diq) noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Zulu

1 entries

izinhlamvu noun (harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops)

Sample sentences

25 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Rye was called the grain of poverty.

Source: tatoeba (1533)

The farmer longs for the day when the grain ripens.

Source: tatoeba (44524)

As usual the peasants are busy scattering grain seeds.

Source: tatoeba (66109)

We import grain from the United States.

Source: tatoeba (247873)

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