Definitions for OATS

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OATS oat

Spelling: [oht]

IPA: /oʊt/

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

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in OATS (aost).

Definitions for OATS

noun

1. a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
2. Usually, oats. (used with a singular or plural verb) the seed of this plant, used as a food for humans and animals.
3. any of several plants of the same genus, as the wild oat.
4. Archaic. a musical pipe made of an oat straw.

Idioms

1. feel one's oats, Informal. to feel frisky or lively. to be aware of and use one's importance or power.
2. sow one's wild oats. wild oat (def 3).

Origin of OATS

before 900; Middle English ote, Old English āte

Examples for OATS

Stir in the oats, nuts, coconut, and the flour mixture, do not overmix.

The lad's hair was inclined to be carroty, while that of the girl suggested the color of oats.

Some had all the venison and bear meat they wanted, but no barley or oats.

In sum, many Chinese leaders, businessmen and youth are feeling their oats.

Oatmeal is made with extra-thick-cut Snoqualmie Falls oats, which pack a deep-roasted flavor.

The boy might find it if you put it among the oats—feedin' the horses, ye know.

In their unadulterated form, oats are pretty much free of simple sugars.

Why, one might bury millions there without reaping a single bushel of oats!

Call them Trojan horse foods: nutritiously pleasing ingredients (oats, yogurts) that conceal a whole host of junk.

I have seen barley and oats in that country three feet high.