granola
/ɡɹəˈnoʊlə/
granola noun: a breakfast and snack food consisting of loose, crispy pellets made of nuts, rolled oats, honey and other natural ingredients. Also the ellipsis of crunchy granola.

Noun
granola (countable and uncountable, plural granolas)
Adjective
granola (comparative more granola, superlative most granola)
- Eating healthy food, supporting the protection of the environment, and having liberal views.
- You see more and more of the granola hippie activist types these days.
- […]behind them a granola-looking mom in denim overalls and a t-shirt was pulling in to do her drop-off . . . from a Prius.2013 November 21, Jame Schaefer, Tobias Winright, Environmental Justice and Climate Change, page 228
Also used as
granola is also the ellipsis of crunchy granola.
granola meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
granola in Hindi
- ग्रेनोला, ग्रानोला
granola in Tamil
- கிரானோலா, கிரேனோலா
granola in Marathi
- ग्रॅनोला, ग्रेनोला, ग्रानोला
granola in Urdu
- گرینولا, گریانولا
More languagesFewer languages
- granola in Bengali
- গ্রানোলা
- granola in Telugu
- గ్రానోలా, గ్రనోలా, గ్రేనోలా
- granola in Malayalam
- ഗ്രാനോള, ഗ്രാനോല, ഗ്രനോള
- granola in Kannada
- ಗ್ರಾನೋಲಾ, ಗ್ರಾನೊಲಾ, ಗ್ರನೋಲಾ
- granola in Punjabi
- ਗ੍ਰਾਨੋਲਾ, ਗ੍ਰੇਨੋਲਾ, ਗ੍ਰੈਨੋਲਾ
- granola in Gujarati
- ગ્રેનોલા, ગ્રાનોલા, ગ્રૅનોલા
- granola in Odia
- ଗ୍ରାନୋଲା, ଗ୍ରେନୋଲା
- granola in Nepali
- ग्रानोला, ग्रेनोला
- granola in Arabic
- جرانولا jirnula
Examples of granola in a sentence
- Rather, the anti-vax movement is almost entirely a phenomenon of the affluent crunchy granola Left—as everyone across the political spectrum acknowledged until the last week or so.2015 February 13, Dennis Saffran, “The Orwellian Campaign To Project Anti-Vaccination Onto Republicans”, in The Federalist:
- Yet some experts believe that voices from the far right are beginning to drown out those of the crunchy granola crowd.2020 June 18, Kiera Butler, “The Anti-Vax Movement’s Radical Shift From Crunchy Granola Purists to Far-Right Crusaders”, in Mother Jones:
Forms of granola
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | granolas |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more granola |
| superlative | most granola |
Origin of granola
Genericized trademark from Granola, a brand of breakfast cereal registered in 1886 by Will Keith Kellogg and in use into the early 20th century. It was initially known as Granula and renamed Granola to avoid legal problems with James Caleb Jackson, who invented a similar cereal in 1863, named Granula after the granules of Graham flour, the main ingredient. The food and name were revived in the 1960s. By 1967, it appears in American English, probably from Italian grano (“grain”) or granular + the commercial suffix -ola.
Words formed from granola
Phrases with granola
Words that rhyme with granola
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- ebola
- idola
- Iola
- minneola
- pianola
- stola
- tombola
- Akmola
- arteriola
- blogola
- boffola
- bola
- braciola
- Carniola
- cashola
- caveola
- Coca Cola
- Coca-Cola
- crapola
- eidola
- gayola
- gladiola
- gorgonzola
- hemiola
- hideola
- Hispaniola
- hola
- lola
- mandola
- mineola
- mola
- mola mola
- Motorola
- moviola
- Ndola
- nola
- payola
- Pensacola
- plugola
- Poehler
- pseudovariola
- pyrola
- salsola
- scagliola
- Shinola
- shola
- solah
- tetracola
Questions about granola
- What does granola mean?
- Granola means a breakfast and snack food consisting of loose, crispy pellets made of nuts, rolled oats, honey and other natural ingredients.
- What is granola in Hindi?
- Granola in Hindi is ग्रेनोला, ग्रानोला. See Granola meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use granola in a sentence?
- Rather, the anti-vax movement is almost entirely a phenomenon of the affluent crunchy granola Left—as everyone across the political spectrum acknowledged until the last week or so.
- What part of speech is granola?
- Granola can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce granola?
- Granola is pronounced /ɡɹəˈnoʊlə/ (US).
- What is the plural of granola?
- The plural of granola is granolas.
Words near granola in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: granola (page history and authors); granola (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); granola (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); granola (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); granola (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); granola (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); granola (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); granola (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); granola (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); granola (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); granola (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); granola (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); granola (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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