Corn

Quick meaning: Corn is a noun meaning (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.

Meaning

(US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.

More Meanings

1. A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
2. A small, hard particle.
3. (uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
4. (Jamaica, MLE, slang, firearms, uncountable) Bullets, ammunition, and charge and discharge of firearms.
5. (Jamaica, slang, uncountable) Money.
6. (US, Canada) To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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

Word Forms

• corns
• corning
• corned

Synonyms for corn

Depending on context, synonyms include cereal, grain, clavus, wheat, maize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include maize, wheat, clavus, grain, barley, cereal.

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