Definitions for CORN

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CORN corn

Spelling: [kawrn]

IPA: /kɔrn/

Corn is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in CORN (cnor).

Definitions for CORN

noun

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. 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.

verb (used with object)

1. to preserve and season with salt in grains.
2. to preserve and season with brine.
3. to granulate, as gunpowder.
4. to plant (land) with corn.
5. to feed with corn.

Origin of CORN

before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Dutch koren, Old Norse korn, German Korn, Gothic kaúrn; akin to Latin grānum grain, Russian zernó

Examples for CORN

That must have been some corn for her to remember it 50 years later!

He is perfectly capable of introducing a bill requiring all cars to run on corn stalks instead of gasoline.

He helped set up an institute in Mexico aimed at improving wheat and corn production.

The men had been afraid that the God of the corn would not be friendly to us.

We don't grow anything like corn enough for ourselves in the Cantal,' he said.

Fortunately the corn was not generally housed, and much of that was saved.

He'll be the corn king all right by June 1st; don't make any mistake on that.

No matter what was on that flag—a white buttercup, a corn muffin, the skeleton of an alligator, who knows?

I certainly found it very helpful when I realized we were going to have to grow our own corn.

She talked of corn, how it was planted and harvested, with what rites and festivals.