corn

CEFRA1

/ˈkɔːn/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A tall cereal plant or its yellow seeds.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.

Examples

  • I have a corn on my right foot.

  • The family were all out reaping the corn.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈkoːn/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.

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

  3. A small, hard particle.

More examples

In context

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

  • Corn the horses.

  • to corn gunpowder

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”). Cognate with Dutch koren, German Low German Koorn, German Korn, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë, Russian зерно́ (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin grānum and Lithuanian žirnis. Doublet of grain, gram, granum, and grao. The sense maize (Zea mays) is an ellipsis of Indian corn that developed in 18th century North America.