Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Dried corn (maize) milled (ground) to a meal, especially a coarse one.

    She made a kind of polenta from cornmeal and chicken broth, with some cheese sprinkled on top.

    Maisgrieß

    кукуру́зная мука́kukurúznaja muká

    кукуру́дзяне бо́рошноkukurúdzjane bórošno

    coarsely ground corn

  2. (archaic, countable, especially, uncountable)Any cereal grain meal or flour.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Dredge the fish in cornmeal before frying.

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Translations

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Deutsch
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dried corn milled to a coarse meal:

Origin

From corn + meal.

From corn + meal.

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Forms

plural: cornmeals
Singularcornmeal
Pluralcornmeals

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Derivedcornmealy

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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