cereal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it

   a cereal beverage

2. 2
   noun

   Breakfast cereal.

   Would you like some cereal?

3. 3
   adj

   Of or relating to cereal.

   Wheat .. is, of all the cereal seeds, the best adapted to the making of bread.

4. 4
   adj

   Of or relating to the goddess Ceres.

   By means of statues and coinage depicting his wife Livia in the guise of Ceres and himself in the Cereal crown of the Arval Brethren, Augustus implied that his own godlike charisma helped keep the plebeians fed […]

5. 5
   noun

   a breakfast food prepared from grain

6. 6
   noun

   foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

7. 7
   noun

   grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat

8. 8
   noun

   A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.

Etymology

Borrowed from French céréale (“having to do with cereal”), from Latin Cerealis (“of or relating to Ceres”), from Ceres (“Roman goddess of agriculture”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“grow”), from which also Latin sincerus (English sincere) and Latin crēscō (“grow”) (English crescent).