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Definitions for Corn

[1] Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British , maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
[2] the grain, seeds, or kernels of this plant, used for human food or for fodder.
[3] the ears of this plant.
[4] the edible seed of certain other cereal plants, especially wheat in England and oats in Scotland.
[5] the plants themselves.
[6] sweet corn.
[7] corn whiskey.
[8] Skiing . corn snow.
[9] Informal . old-fashioned, trite, or mawkishly sentimental material, as a joke, a story, or music.
[10] to preserve and season with salt in grains.
[11] to preserve and season with brine.
[12] to granulate, as gunpowder.
[13] to plant (land) with corn.
[14] to feed with corn.
[15] a horny induration or callosity of the epidermis, usually with a central core, formed especially on the toes or feet and caused by undue pressure or friction.
[16] a combining form meaning “having a horn,” of the kind specified by the initial element: longicorn.
[17] Cornish.
[18] Cornwall.
[19] British any of various cereal plants, esp the predominant crop of a region, such as wheat in England and oats in Scotland and Ireland the seeds of such plants, esp after harvesting a single seed of such plants; a grain
[20] Also called: Indian corn British equivalent: maize a tall annual grass, Zea mays, cultivated for its yellow edible grains, which develop on a spike the grain of this plant, used for food, fodder, and as a source of oil See also sweet corn (def. 1), popcorn (def. 1)
[21] the plants producing these kinds of grain considered as a growing crop spring corn (in combination ) a cornfield
[22] short for corn whisky
[23] slang an idea, song, etc, regarded as banal or sentimental
[24] archaic , or dialect any hard particle or grain
[25] to feed (animals) with corn, esp oats
[26] to preserve in brine to salt
[27] to plant corn on
[28] a hardening or thickening of the skin around a central point in the foot, caused by pressure or friction
[29] tread on someone's corns British informal to offend or hurt someone by touching on a sensitive subject or encroaching on his privileges

Words related to Corn

banality, bromide, platitude, egg, grain, nut, berry, blister, abscess, bump, bruise, tumor, sore, welt, inflammation, injury, contusion, nodule, wheat, rice

Words nearby Corn

corm, cormack, cormel, cormophyte, cormorant, corn, corn beef, corn belt, corn borer, corn bread, corn broom

Origin of Corn

-cornrepresenting Latin -cornis horned

Word origin for Corn

C15: from Old French corne horn, from Latin cornū

Synonyms for Corn

banality, bromide, buzzword, chestnut, commonplace, evenness, flatness, hokum, inanity, insipidity, monotony, motto, potboiler, proverb, saw, shibboleth, stereotype, tag, triteness, triviality, truism, vapidity, verbiage, boiler plate, cliché, familiar tune, hackneyed saying, high camp, old chestnut, old story, prosaicism, trite remark