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Synonyms for corn

  • noun

Most common

cereal maize provender clavus

All synonyms

Noun

1. Cereal — any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region

grain, cereal

Other

maize, clavus, provender

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.

Related words

Word family
cornbird corn-cracker corn-dodger corn-factor cornfloor cornflour cornflower cornhole
Phrases
corn poppy sweet corn corn earworm corn liquor corn pudding green corn sugar corn corn dog
Is a kind of
grain corn

Forms

Plural
corns → grains, cereals, maizes, clavuses…

Example sentences

  • cereal There were several boxes of cereal in the pantry.
  • maize France has banned a strain of genetically modified maize.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
cornfalling
cerealsteady
maizefalling
provendersteady
clavusfalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

5 letters
grain1, maize1
6 letters
cereal3, clavus
9 letters
provender

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (cereal3 = 3 syllables).

In other languages

Français
cor
Italiano
corno
Español
trompa
Deutsch
Horn