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oatmeal

oatmeal

80 1.0
Soft cooked oats eaten for breakfast
  • noun
  • /ˈoʊtˌmiːl/
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  • I enjoy having a warm bowl of oatmeal with honey and berries for breakfast every morning.
  • oatmeal in the morning

I would love to have some nice thick oatmeal cooked with Bailey's.

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Examples

  • He also really likes these oatmeal golden syrup bars as well.

  • I'm going to have two packs of oatmeal, Maple brown sugar for breakfast today.

  • It's like a little bowl of oatmeal with a hole in it.

    Starsky & Hutch (2004)

  • Tell me about how your mother ate oatmeal every morning.

    Academic text (2008)

  • I'm going to eat my oatmeal here and then head in.

    Taylor Wynn

  • And then I do oatmeal, a banana and coffee.

  • My regimen is I wake up, have oatmeal, run, come back, hit the weights.

    Tom Bilyeu

  • I had oatmeal for breakfast with two glasses of milk, rationed.

    Redeeming Love (2022)

  • The woman produced a plate of oatmeal and sugar cookies and a pitcher of lemonade with a glass.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • I had tucked the children into bed under down quilts and made them oatmeal and tea.

    Fiction book (1994)

Synonyms

cereal
vsoatmeal
195 1.0

A food made from grains that you eat with milk for breakfast

is a cooked soft grain dish rather than a processed dry breakfast food
porridge
vsoatmeal
27 1.0

Soft warm food made by boiling oats in milk or water until thick

is made from a single grain type rather than many different grains
gruel
vsoatmeal
14 8.1

A thin hot food made by boiling ground grain in water or milk

is thicker and more solid than that thin liquid preparation
hot cereal
vsoatmeal
  • US
1 1.7

A warm breakfast made from grains like oatmeal or porridge

is a specific grain dish not defined by whether it is served hot
stirabout
vsoatmeal
  • Archaic
9.9

A hot thick porridge that you make from oatmeal and boiling water

is made by cooking a specific grain without stressing constant stirring

Compounds

oatmeal cookie
  • US
4 1.0

A sweet baked cookie made with oats, often with raisins or nuts

How Filling

oatmeal
80 1.0
cold cereal
1 1.0
fruit juice
12 1.0

Surface Forms

oatmeal singular
oatmeals plural

Morphology

oatmeal = oat + meal (transparent) = oat + meal

The meaning is directly derived from 'oat' and 'meal', referring to a meal made from oats.

Etymology

Oatmeal joins the simple words oat (the grain) and meal (meaning 'ground grain' or 'food'), so it originally meant oats made ready to eat. That's why oatmeal today is the soft porridge you cook from oats in water or milk.