Corn

/ˈkɔːn/ · noun

Meaning

(Commonwealth, but not Australia or New Zealand, uncountable) Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Commonwealth, but not Australia or New Zealand, uncountable) Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
2. (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
3. A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
4. A small, hard particle.
5. (uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
6. (Jamaica, MLE, slang, firearms, uncountable) Bullets, ammunition, and charge and discharge of firearms.
7. (Jamaica, slang, uncountable) Money.
8. (US, Canada) To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.

Example Sentences

And hee ſaid, Beholde, I haue heard that there is corne in Egypt: get you downe thither and buy for vs from thence, that we may liue, and not die.

Among the divinities that dwelt on Mount Olympus, none was more friendly to the husbandman than Demeter, goddess of corn.

Moreover, however much the individual manufacturer might give the rein to his old lust for gain, the spokesmen and political leaders of the manufacturing class ordered a change of front and of speech towards the workpeople. They had entered upon the contest for the repeal of the Corn Laws, and needed the workers to help them to victory. They promised, therefore, not only a double-sized loaf of bread, but the enactment of the Ten Hours' Bill in the Free Trade millenium.

[T]here exists arguments in favour of regarding one of the eatable varieties of "leaven," Machmetzeth, as the beer of the Hebrews. The mention of beer by the Egyptians is frequent; under the name of Hek, two intoxicating beverages are included. The components of these beers, individually, are not known: one was made from corn, the other was a medicated or sweetened beer, due to the addition of honey, or system of brewing.

I found that we had nearly a hundred bushels of corn, including wheat, maize, and barley, to add to our store.

The planting or sowing of maize, exclusively called corn, was just accomplished on the Town Hill, when I reached it.

Corn was the staff of life for many Indian people before contact, and it became the staff of life for many European colonists. Corn was higher in nutrition than most other grain crops. John Lawson, who travelled in South Carolina and into the interior Indian country in 1701, was one of the many colonists who sang the praises of corn.

He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.

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• corns
• corning
• corned

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