cereal

English

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Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈsɪəɹiːəɫ]

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• Homophone: serial

Noun

cereal (usually uncountable; plural cereals)

1. (countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
2. (uncountable) The grains of such a grass.
3. (uncountable) Breakfast cereal.

   Would you like some cereal?

4. (countable) A particular type of breakfast cereal.

   Which cereal would you like for breakfast?

Derived terms

• cereal bar
• cereal dust
• cereal killer

Related terms

• crescent
• sincere

Translations

type of grass

Armenian: հացաբույս (hy) (hac’abuys), հացահատիկային կուլտուրա (hy) (hac’ahatikayin kultura) Bulgarian: житна култура (bg) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 穀物 (cmn), 谷物 (cmn) (gǔwù) Croatian: žitarica (hr) f. Danish: korn (da), kornsort (da) Finnish: vilja (fi) French: céréale f. (fr) German: Getreide n. (de)

Greek: δημητριακό (el) (dimitriakó) n. Macedonian: жито (mk) (žíto) n. Portuguese: cereal Russian: злак (ru) (zlak) m., зерновая культура (ru) (z'ernovája kultúra) f. Slovene: žito Spanish: cereal (es) m. Swedish: sädesslag (sv) n.

grains of such a grass

Armenian: հացահատիկ (hy) (hac’ahatik) Bulgarian: зърнени храни (bg) pl. Chinese: Mandarin: 穀物 (cmn), 谷物 (cmn) (gǔwù) Croatian: zrno (hr) n. Danish: korn (da) Finnish: vilja, viljanjyvä German: Getreide n. (de) Greek: δημητριακό (el) (dimitriakó) n. Korean: 곡물 (ko) (gongmul)

Macedonian: житарка (mk) (žítarka) f., житарки (mk) (žítarki) pl. Polish: zboże (pl) n. Portuguese: cereais Russian: крупа (ru) (krupá) f. Slovene: zrno Spanish: cereal (es) m. Swedish: korn (sv) n. Volapük: grenaflogs (vo)

breakfast cereal — see breakfast cereal

External links

• Lists of cereals at Wikipedia

Anagrams

• claree
• cleare
• relace

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Spanish

Noun

cereal m. (plural cereales)

1. cereal