raisin bran

2 1.0

A breakfast cereal of bran flakes mixed with raisins

noun
/ˈreɪzən bræn/

: cereal de salvado con pasas

My dad eats Raisin Bran every day.
a bowl of raisin bran
a cup of raisin bran
raisin bran cereal

Yeah, they do like Raisin Bran and like fucking bullshit.

Examples

I could not even finish my bowl of raisin bran this morning because of an article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution that attempts to explain the.

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Eating my oatmeal and raisin bran muffin with a big glass of heart-healthy OJ for breakfast every morning.

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My dad had a bowl of Raisin Bran for breakfast.
Next is another cereal by post Next is Raisin Bran by Kellogg's.
Mushrooms, chocolate roll, Raisin bran. They have beef. Kanji.
My dad had a bowl of raisin bran for breakfast.
My favorite is raisin bran with a banana cut up and thrown in.
I enjoy eating raisin bran with cold milk every morning.

Synonyms

cereal

vsraisin bran

195 1.0

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

is a particular breakfast mix that adds dried fruit to flakes

dry cereal

vsraisin bran

1 1.0

A breakfast food like flakes or puffs you eat with milk without cooking

is a specific variety that combines flakes with dried fruit

Surface Forms

raisin bran singular

raisin brans plural

Morphology

raisin + bran

The meaning ('a breakfast cereal of bran flakes mixed with raisins') is directly and literally derived from combining 'raisin' and 'bran'—a noun+noun compound naming a food made of those ingredients. This compositional, cross-linguistically common pattern follows standard noun compounding and would be readily understood by a B1 learner who knows both words.

Etymology

Raisin bran is very literal: it names a cereal made from bran, the outer part of the grain, and raisin, dried grapes. So it simply means a 'breakfast cereal' with bran flakes and raisins.