granola
/ɡɹəˈnoʊlə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.98 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A breakfast and snack food consisting of loose, crispy pellets made of nuts, rolled oats, honey and other natural ingredients.
Countable; Uncountable
adj
Eating healthy food, supporting the protection of the environment, and having liberal views.
Canadian usage; American usage
Example Sentences
- "You see more and more of the granola hippie activist types these days."
- "[…]behind them a granola-looking mom in denim overalls and a t-shirt was pulling in to do her drop-off . . . from a Prius."
- "Rather, the anti-vax movement is almost entirely a phenomenon of the affluent crunchy granola Left—as everyone across the political spectrum acknowledged until the last week or so."
- "Yet some experts believe that voices from the far right are beginning to drown out those of the crunchy granola crowd."
Etymology
Genericized trademark from Granola, a brand of breakfast cereal registered in 1886 by Will Keith Kellogg and in use into the early 20th century. It was initially known as Granula and renamed Granola to avoid legal problems with James Caleb Jackson, who invented a similar cereal in 1863, named Granula after the granules of Graham flour, the main ingredient. The food and name were revived in the 1960s. By 1967, it appears in American English, probably from Italian grano (“grain”) or granular + the commercial suffix -ola.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɡɹəˈnoʊlə/