cereal
UK/ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/
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Canada[ˈsiːɹiəl]
cereal noun: a type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
Noun
cereal (countable and uncountable, plural cereals)
Adjective (1)
cereal (not comparable)
- Of or relating to cereal.
- Wheat .. is, of all the cereal seeds, the best adapted to the making of bread.1818, H[enry] T[homas] Colebrooke, On Import of Colonial Corn, London: J[ohn] Murray, →OCLC, page 20; quoted in “Cereal (sīᵊ·riˌăl), a. and sb.”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors...
- Millet, the smallest of all the cereal seeds cultivated for food, grows on arid soils, where rice and maize cannot be successfully cultivated, […]1837, Henry Duncan, “Eleventh Week—Wednesday. The Corn-Plants.—Rice, Maize, and Millet.”, in Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons; Illustrating the Perfections of God in the Phenomena of the Year...
Proper noun capitalized: Cereal
Cereal
Adjective (2) capitalized: Cereal
Cereal (comparative more Cereal, superlative most Cereal)
- 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 […]2013, Giovanni Casadio, Patricia A. Johnston, Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia
cereal meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
cereal in Hindi
- type of grass
- खाद्यान्न khādyānn
- grains of such a grass
- खाद्यान्न khādyānn
cereal in Tamil
- தானியம்
cereal in Urdu
- اناج
cereal in Bengali
- শস্যজাত খাদ্য
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- cereal in Telugu
- తృణధాన్యము tr̥ṇadhānyamu, ధాన్యము dhānyamu
- cereal in Malayalam
- ധാന്യം dhānyaṁ, അന്നം annaṁ
- cereal in Kannada
- ಕಾಳು, ಕಾಳುಗಳು, ಧಾನ್ಯ, ತೃಣಧಾನ್ಯ
- cereal in Punjabi
- ਅੰਨ anna
- cereal in Nepali
- खाद्यान्न khādyānna, अनाज anāj
- cereal in Tagalog
- angkak
- cereal in Arabic
- حُبُوب ḥubūb
- cereal in Malay
- bijian, bijirin
- cereal in Indonesian
- sereal
- cereal in Thai
- ธัญพืช tan-yá-pʉ̂ʉt
- cereal in Vietnamese
- ngũ cốc
Examples of cereal in a sentence
- The farmer wants indehiscent heads of a cereal which can be gathered without shedding their grain.
- A flour mill adds value to cereal grain by grinding it into meal or flour.
- The farmer wants non-shedding heads of a cereal which can be gathered without shedding their grain.
Synonyms of cereal
Forms of cereal
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cereals |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more Cereal |
| superlative | most Cereal |
Origin of cereal
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). The adjective is equivalent to Cere(s) + -al.
Words formed from cereal
Phrases with cereal
Questions about cereal
- What does cereal mean?
- Cereal means a type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
- What is cereal in Hindi?
- Cereal in Hindi is खाद्यान्न (khādyānn). See Cereal meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cereal?
- Cereal can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce cereal?
- Cereal is pronounced /ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cereal?
- The plural of cereal is cereals.
Words near cereal in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cereal (page history and authors); Cereal (page history and authors); cereal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cereal (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cereal (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); తృణధాన్యము (Telugu) (page history and authors); അന്നം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); cereal (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਅੰਨ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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