cereal
/ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.74 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to cereal.
Example Sentences
- "Would you like some cereal?"
- "Which cereal would you like for breakfast?"
- "a bowl of cereal"
- "Wheat .. is, of all the cereal seeds, the best adapted to the making of bread."
- "Millet, the smallest of all the cereal seeds cultivated for food, grows on arid soils, where rice and maize cannot be successfully cultivated, […]"
- "The river flows on, washing the base of the sandstone fossiliferous bank at Preston-bridge,—lightening up the rich valley of Preston-haugh,—lending beauty to the open demesnes of Broomhouse, and to the sylvan and cereal grounds of Blanerne; […]"
Etymology
Borrowed from French céréale (“having to do with cereal”), from Latin Cerealis (“of or relating to Ceres”), from Ceres (“Roman goddess of agriculture”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“grow”), from which also Latin sincerus (English sincere) and Latin crēscō (“grow”) (English crescent). The adjective is equivalent to Cere(s) + -al.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ḱer-, Cerealis
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
cereal bar
cereal dust
cereal itch
cereal killer
cereal leaf beetle
pee in someone's cereal
piss in someone's cereal
shit in someone's cereal