cold cereal
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- noun
- /koʊld ˈsɪrəl/
:
cereal frío
- She poured herself some cold cereal and added fresh strawberries on top.
- eat cold cereal
- cold cereal for breakfast
- cold cereal and milk
And then for breakfast you eat cold cereal, which is like the only normal thing.
- And then for breakfast you eat cold cereal, which is like the only normal thing.
Examples
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So the boys normally start out with some cold cereal like Cheerios or Rice Krispies.
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Even though he wasn't hungry, Yuri forced himself to eat some cold cereal.
Fiction book (1999) -
And then for breakfast you eat cold cereal, which is like the only normal thing.
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We came down to a cold kitchen and had cold cereal.
Fiction book (1998) -
For breakfast they would have toast, cold cereal, porridge and things like that.
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After forty-six days of nothing but cold cereal with a little milk and an occasional peanut butter sandwich, they were all food-crazy.
Fiction book (1995) -
As he pondered, he prepared and consumed a brunch of crackers, elderly cheese, and cold cereal and milk.
Fiction book (1997) -
There's cold cereal in here and a Libby's canned fruit but she won't eat the cherries.
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However, spoon-size shredded wheat (not mini-wheats) is a yummy, crunchy, unsweetened cold cereal.
Blog text (5) -
For breakfast, I usually enjoy a bowl of cold cereal with milk.
Synonyms
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A food made from grains that you eat with milk for breakfast
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Food people usually eat in the morning, like cereal or eggs
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A breakfast food like flakes or puffs you eat with milk without cooking
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Morphology
The meaning 'a breakfast cereal eaten without heating' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'cold' (low temperature) with 'cereal' (processed grain breakfast food). This simple adjective + noun composition follows normal modification patterns and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
The compound noun cold cereal comes from a simple image: crunchy flakes you pour into a bowl and eat with cold milk instead of cooking the cereal. So cold cereal means 'a breakfast cereal you eat without heating'.