oat

CEFRB2

/ˈəʊt/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A grain used for food, especially breakfast cereal.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena.

Examples

  • Can you tell the difference between oat and wheat just by looking at it?

  • In the long run oat flakes with advocaat for breakfast will knock everybody's socks off.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3

Also pronounced

  • /ˈoʊ̯t/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop and for animal feed.

  2. Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.

  3. A simple musical pipe made of oat-straw.

More examples

In context

  • Tom put some oat milk in his coffee.

  • The main forms of oat are meal and bran.

  • The oat stalks made good straw.

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The warm porridge was made from cooked blank flakes, which help lower cholesterol.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

Inherited from Middle English ote, from Old English āte, from Proto-West Germanic *aitā, from Proto-Germanic *aitǭ (“swelling; gland; nodule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyd- (“to swell”). See English atter (“poison”). Cognates * Germanic: cognate with Scots ait (“oat”), West Frisian oat (“wild oat”), Dutch oot, aat (“wild oat”), Saterland Frisian Aate (“pea”), German Low German Aat (“oat”), obsolete Luxembourgish Otz (“oat”). Further related to Icelandic eitill (“nodule”), Norwegian Bokmål eitel (“knot, gland”), Norwegian Nynorsk eitel (“knot, gland”), Old High German eiz (“abscess”) (German Eiter (“pus”), Eiß (“ulcer”)), Dutch etter (“pus”), Saterland Frisian eitel (“fast, raging”), Old...