Meaning

5 senses
  1. (uncountable)Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.

    The oat stalks made good straw.

    The main forms of oat are meal and bran.

    Hafer, Haber

    овёсovjós

    ове́сovés

    seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as ‘oats’)

  2. (countable)Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena.

    The wild red oat is thought to be the ancestor of modern food oats.

  3. (countable, uncountable, usually)The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop and for animal feed.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A simple musical pipe made of oat-straw.

  5. (countable, uncountable)The tiniest amount; a whit or jot.

Examples

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  1. Tom gave some oats to his horse.

    deTom gab seinem Pferd Hafer.

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  2. Tom gave his horse some oats.

    deTom gab seinem Pferd Hafer.

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  3. Oat porridge tastes best with milk.

    Вівсяна каша краще смакує з молоком.

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  4. One must sow one's wild oats.

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  5. Mary gave her horse some oats.

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Translations

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Origin

Inherited from Middle English ote, from Old English āte, from Proto-West Germanic *aitā, f

Inherited from Middle English ote, from Old English āte, from Proto-West Germanic *aitā, from Proto-Germanic *aitǭ (“swelling; gland; nodule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyd- (“to swell”). See English atter (“poison”).

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