How do you use the word "oat" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "oat" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "oat": In the long run oat flakes with advocaat for breakfast will knock everybody's socks off. Can you tell the difference between oat and wheat just by looking at it?

Oat Meaning

/ˈəʊt/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounWidely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.

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

Sentence Examples

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

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

Tom put some oat milk in his coffee.

CEFR Practice Quiz

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

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Many people enjoy starting their day with a bowl of warm ____ porridge for breakfast.

Word Origin & History

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 Norse eitill (“nodule”) * Indo-European: Latin aemidus (“swollen, protuberant”), Old Church Slavonic ꙗдъ (jadŭ, “poison”), Ancient Greek οἰδέω (oidéō, “to swell”), Albanian ënjt (“to swell, inflame”), Old Armenian այտնում (aytnum, “to swell”), այտ (ayt, “cheek”), Sanskrit इन्दु (índu, “water drop”)

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"[…]I could munch your good dry Oates. Me-thinkes I haue a great deſire to a bottle of hay: good hay, ſweete hay hath no fellow." — c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 157, column 1:

"The point is, except in Scotland, people eat comparatively few oats. Scotland's another story, though you'll have to decide how seriously to take it. The way the story goes is that in eastern Scotland, the unmarried plowmen didn't eat anything but oats and milk, except for an occasional potato." — 1991, Cornelia M. Parkinson, Cooking with Oats: Oat Bran, Oatmeal, and More, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 2:

"Few of them care an oat for the niceties of the arrow sport, but for the young lords that may be on a hunt!" — 1994, Susan King, The Black Thorne's Rose, page 21:

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