Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable)Any of the several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.

    They bought a sack of wheat and a sack of rye with the intent to try their hand at milling and baking.

    Weizen

    пшени́цаpšeníca

    пшени́цяpšenýcja

    grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour

  2. (uncountable)A light brown color, like that of wheat.

    They debated the paint color options for the bathroom walls and settled on wheat.

    annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains

Examples

253 sentences
  1. When will you harvest your wheat?

    Коли в вас жнива?

    ruКогда вы будете убирать пшеницу?

    deWann wirst du deinen Weizen ernten?

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  2. Flour is made from wheat.

    Борошно роблять із пшениці.

    ruМука сделана из пшеницы.

    deMehl wird aus Weizen gemacht.

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  3. I'm harvesting wheat.

    Я збираю пшеницю.

    deIch ernte Weizen.

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  4. We grow wheat here.

    Ми тут вирощуємо пшеницю.

    ruМы выращиваем пшеницу здесь.

    deWir bauen hier Weizen an.

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  5. Bread is made from wheat.

    Хліб роблять з пшениці.

    ruХлеб делают из пшеницы.

    deBrot wird aus Weizen hergestellt.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
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Origin

From Middle English whete, from Old English hwǣte, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaitī, from

From Middle English whete, from Old English hwǣte, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaitī, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz (compare West Frisian weet, Dutch weit, Low German Weten, German Weizen, Danish hvede, Swedish vete, Norwegian Bokmål hvete, Norwegian Nynorsk kveite, Faroese and Icelandic hveiti), from *hwītaz (“white”). More at white.

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Forms

plural: wheats
Singularwheat
Pluralwheats

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour:wheat berry
  • a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white:pale yellowstraw

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
wheat — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto