cheerios

UK/ˈtʃɪəɹ.i.əʊz//ˈt͡ʃɪɹ.i.oʊz/

cheerios is the plural of cheerio.

Meaning of cheerio

Noun

cheerio (plural cheerios)

(New Zealand) A small saveloy often consumed with tomato sauce at parties.
- The man who has gone around the cocktail circuit pounding cheerios to the end of time did not come in here and open his mouth once on the Bill.1978, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 4230
Synonyms:

cocktail sausage, little boy

See all 4 meanings of cheerio

Proper noun capitalized: Cheerios

Cheerios

A toroidal toasted oat cereal made by General Mills.

Noun capitalized: Cheerios

Cheerios

(plural) plural of Cheerio

Origin of cheerios

Introduced on May 2, 1941, as “Cheerioats”: cheery + oats. The name was shortened to “Cheerios” on December 2, 1945, after a competing cereal manufacturer, Quaker Oats, claimed to hold the rights to use the term oats.

Words formed from cheerios

Questions about cheerios

What does cheerios mean?: Cheerios means a toroidal toasted oat cereal made by General Mills.
What is cheerios the plural of?: Cheerios is the plural of cheerio.
What part of speech is cheerios?: Cheerios can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce cheerios?: Cheerios is pronounced /ˈtʃɪəɹ.i.əʊz/ (UK).

Words near cheerios in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: cheerios (page history and authors); Cheerios (page history and authors); cheerio (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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