Definitions for Cinnamon

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Cinnamon cin·na·mon

Spelling: [sin-uh-muh n]

IPA: /ˈsɪn ə mən/

Cinnamon is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in Cinnamon (acimnnno).

Definitions for Cinnamon

noun

1. the aromatic inner bark of any of several East Indian trees belonging to the genus Cinnamonum, of the laurel family, especially the bark of C. zeylanicum (Ceylon cinnamon) used as a spice, or that of C. loureirii (Saigon cinnamon) used in medicine as a cordial and carminative.
2. a tree yielding such bark.
3. any allied or similar tree.
4. a common culinary spice of dried rolled strips of this bark, often made into a powder.
5. cassia (def 1).
6. a yellowish or reddish brown.

adjective

1. (of food) containing or flavored with cinnamon.
2. reddish-brown or yellowish-brown.

Origin of Cinnamon

1400-50; Latin Late Greek kínnamon Semitic (compare Hebrew qinnāmōn); replacing late Middle English cinamome Middle French Latin cinnamōmum Greek kinnámōmon Semitic as above

Examples for Cinnamon

Or you may send the sugar and cinnamon in a little glass bowl.

Peppermint party, chocolate, cinnamon: e-cigarettes are beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Put the mince into a quart of boiling milk, with a little butter and salt, cinnamon and sugar, and stir them carefully together.

Stewed apples, dusted with cinnamon, are an ideal companion to spicy food.

The sweetness cuts through the usual harshness of Vodka and leaves a cinnamon taste on the tongue.

The store smelled of spice, and the clerk that minute spilled some cinnamon.

He sprays the glass with some citrus peel and garnishes the cocktail with an organic flower and cinnamon sticks.

Stir in at the last a table-spoonful of mixed nutmeg and cinnamon.

Boil four ounces of ground rice in milk, with a blade of cinnamon: put it into a pot, and let it stand till the next day.

The smell of grilled meat mixes with the exotic wafts of cinnamon tea served with a mush of sweet brown dessert.