Meaning

12 senses
  1. (Commonwealth, uncountable, usually)Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.

    Getreide, Korn

    (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region — wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)

  2. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, uncountable, usually)Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.

  3. (uncountable, usually)A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.

    He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.

    Korn, Getreide, Zerealie

    зерно́zernó

  4. (uncountable, usually)A small, hard particle.

    Korn

  5. (uncountable, usually)A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.

  6. (Jamaica, Multicultural London English, slang, uncountable, usually)Bullets, ammunition, and charge and discharge of firearms.

  7. (Jamaica, slang, uncountable, usually)Money.

  8. (transitive)A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.

    Hühnerauge

    мозо́льmozólʹ

    мозо́льmozólʹ

  9. (transitive)An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.

  10. (transitive)Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.

  11. (Canada, US, transitive, uncountable)Something (e.g., acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.

  12. (Internet, euphemistic, transitive, uncountable)Pornography; porn

Examples

236 sentences
  1. I'm allergic to corn.

    В мене алергія на кукурудзу. — deniko

    ruУ меня аллергия на кукурузу. — marafon

    deIch habe eine Maisallergie. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Bourbon is made from corn.

    Бурбон виготовляють із зерна. — sadxaka

    ruБурбон производят из зерна. — vilnat

    deBourbon wird aus Mais gemacht. — jast

  3. Tom still hasn't planted the corn.

  4. Tom bought a bushel of corn.

  5. I spent all day planting corn.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
type of callus:
Русский
By meaning 2
grain or seed of a cereal crop:
type of callus:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
main cereal crop or staple in a given region:
grain or seed of a cereal crop:
type of callus:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn,

Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”).

Rhyming euphemism for porn, and with influence from the emoji substitute 🌽.

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Forms

plural: corns
Singularcorn

uncountable

Synonyms

10 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food:edible corn
  • tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times:maizeIndian cornZea mays
  • a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes:clavus
  • whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn:corn whiskeycorn whisky

Word family

160 related words

See also

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