Meaning

3 senses

  1. (countable)A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.

    Getreide, Korn, Zerealie

    злакzlak, зернова́я культу́раzernovája kulʹtúra

    grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet

  2. (uncountable)The grains of such a grass.

    Getreide, Korn, Frucht

    крупа́krupá

    збі́жжяzbížžja

  3. (uncountable)Breakfast cereal.

    Would you like some cereal?

    Which cereal would you like for breakfast?

    a breakfast food prepared from grain

Examples

120 sentences

  1. I'll have some cereal and orange juice.

    Я буду пластівці та апельсиновий сік. — deniko

    deIch nehme ein Müsli und einen Orangensaft. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. Tom poured himself some cereal.

    Том насипав собі трохи сухих пластівців. — deniko

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  3. Tom poured milk on his cereal.

    ruТом налил в хлопья молока. — marafon

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  4. Tom usually eats cereal for breakfast.

    ruТом обычно ест на завтрак хлопья. — marafon

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  5. Tom ate three bowls of cereal.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
grains of such a grass:
Русский
By meaning 2
type of grass:
grains of such a grass:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
type of grass:
grains of such a grass:

Origin

Borrowed from French céréale (“having to do with cereal”), from Latin Cerealis (“of or rel

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.

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Forms

plural: cereals
Singularcereal
Pluralcereals

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
edible grains:foodgrain
Close in meaning
  • grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet:cereal grass
  • foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses:grainfood grain

Word family

9 related words
RelatedsincereB2crescent
Derivedcereal barcerealiccerealincerealistcereal itchnoncerealpseudocereal

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

Collocations

4 patterns
  • bowls of cereal
  • cereal for breakfast
  • eats cereal
  • some cereal

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
ceramicceramicscerecerebellumcerebralceremonial
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