Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A grass such as wheat, oats, or corn, the starchy grains of which are used as food.
- n. The grain of such a grass.
- n. Any of several other plants or their edible seed or fruit, such as buckwheat or grain amaranth.
- n. A food prepared from any of these plants, especially a breakfast food made from commercially processed grain.
- adj. Consisting of or relating to grain or to a plant producing grain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining or relating to edible grain; producing farinaceous seeds suitable for food.
- n. A gramineous plant cultivated for the use of its farinaceous seeds as food; any one of the annual grain-plants, as wheat, rye, barley, oats, rice, millet, or maize.
Wiktionary
- n. countable A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
- n. uncountable The grains of such a grass.
- n. uncountable Breakfast cereal.
- n. countable A particular type of breakfast cereal.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.
- n. Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural.
WordNet 3.0
- n. grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet.
- n. a breakfast food prepared from grain
- adj. made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it
- n. foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
Etymologies
- 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 *ker- (“grow”), from which also Latin sincerus (English sincere) and Latin crēscō ("grow") (English crescent). (Wiktionary)
- From Latin cereālis, of grain, from Cerēs, Ceres; see ker-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Personally, I've never understood the appeal of marshmallows in cereal if the cereal is any good at all.”
“This cereal is a wonderful example of an unglamorous food that nonetheless provides inexpensive and invaluable nutrition to millions of people in Asia and Africa.”
“One quick and easy snack is homemade trail mix made with 1 to 2 tablespoons of dark chocolate chips, 2 tablespoons of dried fruit, half a cup of whole-grain cereal and 2 tablespoons of chopped nuts or sesame seeds.”
“A small box of my fave cereal is 86mxn pesos at the Mescales WalMart, a scandal!”
“We tried to give him a new multigrain cereal with water this morning and he seemed to like it ok.”
Reed at 5 months – sitting up, traveling, swimming, and always eating!
“For the grains, I used white bread flour, whole wheat flour, and a multi-grain cereal (Bob's Red Mill High-Fibre Hot Cereal with Flaxseed) that I also wrote about here.”
“I can't speak for the US but Aussie homebrand cereal is usually akin to chewy cardboard.”
“When There are 500 different permutations of cereal, vs. 10 they get less of a deal because each individual type of cereal is bough in fewer numbers, and raising the price per unit.”
“It turned out to be “Girls, Technology, and the Future”, and about a dozen people had a great discussion about our favorite books, and wanting Google to tell us which aisle the cereal is in at the store.”
“A Federal Trade Commission investigation that he helped launch attributed the sharp rise in cereal prices to “slotting fees,” the price manufacturers pay for prime placement on supermarket shelves; after an uproar in Congress, prices fell.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cereal’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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EN - confusables
Similar words meaning different things
torturous, wreathe, tortuous, wreath, titivate, titillate, stationary, storey, septic, principal, principle, story and 134 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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bad memory
copper, anvil, oblique, thrust, shrine, welfare, farewell, bitter, faction, sectarian, tangible, spectacle and 134 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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AGRI - crops/fruits/vegetables
Crops, fruits and vegetables + plant growing terms
agricultural crop, agricultural product, cranberry, mulberry, oil seed crops, protein crops, rain-fed agriculture, set-aside, soft fruit, drainage, cereals, cold storage house and 96 more...
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Mythical Qualities
Adjectives derived from mythological figures
saturnine, apollonian, dionysian, oedipal, mercurial, martial, erotic, aphrodisiac, orphic, titanic, herculean, puckish and 20 more...
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TECH - food processing
absorbent material, active agent, additive, animal fat, animal product, antibacterial, antifungal, bleacher, canned goods, cereal, coagulant, coffee substitute and 81 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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AGRI - sugar sector
Terms used in the EU's Common Agricultural Policy referring to policy issues in the sugar sector.
HU translations: arable crops, bioethanol distil..., bioethanol outlet, cereals, chicory, common market org..., Everything But Ar..., energy crops, export refund, Generalised Syste..., intervention price, inuline syrup and 83 more... -
eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Flora
fenugreek, verbena, saxifrage, arbutus, calendula, nasturtium, lobelia, hellebore, rhododendron, philodendron, bellflower, heuchera and 449 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Namesakes
Words derived from names, be they historical, literary, or mythological.
quixotic, cereal, odyssey, jovial, mercurial, erotic, achilles' heel, confucianism, lovecraftian, narcissism, echo, fallopian and 101 more...
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Novel Words
Concise words to sprinkle in my prose.
apropos, perception, discombobulated, adumbrate, apogee, antinomy, sanguine, glyph, taciturn, aesthetic, truncate, coffee and 143 more...
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Myth
augean, bacchanal, cereal, cimmerian, cupidity, cyclopean, mercurial, jovial, hermetic, halcyon, titanic, furious and 105 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cereal.
bilby Mr Breakfast is onto it. Aug 17, 2009