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granola bar

granola bar

9 1.5
A small baked snack made from oats, nuts, and honey, often with dried fruit
  • noun
  • /ɡrəˈnoʊlə bɑr/
translation icon : barrita de granola
  • I brought a granola bar with me for a quick snack during my hike.
  • granola bars and fruit
  • granola bar snack
  • Chewy granola bars

So when you eat a sweetened oat granola bar, you might as well eat a Jelly doughnut.

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Examples

  • Cheerios for breakfast, sandwiches and veggies for lunch, and yogurt and granola bars for snacks.

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  • When I got home yesterday, my brothers had eaten every granola bar in the box.

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  • I spent $3 on that granola bar.

  • "I have a granola bar," she said.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • Um, I think we have some granola bars in the Van.

  • Actually, Jane has some granola bars in her pocket.

  • As for my diet, for breakfast I usually have a granola bar and some almonds or a protein drink.

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  • My favorite granola bars are the RX bars, the Kind bars, or like a Cliff bar.

  • Stash a packet of instant coffee and a granola bar in your purse.

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  • If you're in an office, keep some nuts or granola bars at your desk for when the munchies set in.

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Synonyms

candy bar
vsgranola bar
  • US
71 1.0

A sweet made of chocolate or sugar that you eat as a snack

is made from oats, nuts, and honey, not mainly sugar
chocolate bar
vsgranola bar
25 1.0

A solid sweet made from cocoa, shaped like a bar to eat as a snack

is a baked oat and nut snack rather than a solid cocoa sweet
nut bar
vsgranola bar
1 2.5

A sweet snack of nuts and sugar on a thin baked base cut into bars

is made from oats and honey and usually baked not on pastry
fruit bar
vsgranola bar
1 1.2

A baked sweet snack with chopped fruit cut into bars

is a baked oat and honey snack often containing mixed nuts
peanut bar
vsgranola bar
2.5

A sweet snack made from peanuts and syrup, shaped like a bar

is oat based and baked rather than a sticky sweet confection

How Healthy

granola bar
9 1.5
nut bar
1 2.5
chocolate bar
25 1.0
candy bar
  • US
71 1.0

Surface Forms

granola bar singular
granola bars plural

Morphology

granola + bar

The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'granola' (a mixture of oats, nuts, dried fruit) with 'bar' (a solid, snack-shaped piece): a granola bar is literally a bar made from granola. This product+bar compound follows a common and cross-linguistically transparent pattern (e.g. cereal bar, energy bar), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would understand it.

Etymology

Granola bar comes from pressing granola (a baked mix of oats, nuts and honey) into a small bar you can hold. That's why the name now means a compact, portable food you eat as a 'quick snack'.