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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.

granola: a breakfast and snack food consisting of loose, crispy pellets made of nuts, rolled oats, honey and...
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Noun

granola (countable and uncountable, plural granolas)

  1. A breakfast and snack food consisting of loose, crispy pellets made of nuts, rolled oats, honey and other natural ingredients.

Adjective

granola (comparative more granola, superlative most granola)

  1. (Canada, US) 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
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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
pluralgranolas
Adjective
comparativemore granola
superlativemost 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

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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

  1. granofels
  2. granofilosean
  3. granofiloseans
  4. granogabbro
  5. granogabbroic
  6. granola
  7. granola bar
  8. granola bars
  9. granola mom
  10. granola moms
  11. granola-head

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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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