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cornmeal

cornmeal

18 2.3
Ground dried corn used in cooking and baking
  • noun
  • /ˈkɔrnˌmil/
  • US
translation icon : harina de maíz
  • We are ending the food tour with the national dish, which is flying fish and cuckoo, which is like cornmeal with some herbs.
  • cornmeal mush

As a child, Hanabad learned to blend the fine cornmeal in the still mountain mornings.

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Examples

  • There's pan-baked bread, a dish of salt, and the pot has venison and yellow cornmeal in a kind of stew.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Grease the pie pan with a little bit of oil and then sprinkle little cornmeal over the oil.

  • Well, that is a waste of good cornmeal if you ask me.

  • I need you to go to the store to get some cornmeal.

  • Stir cornmeal into the remaining cup of cold milk and add 1 cup of cold water.

    Academic text (1993)
  • They're made with white cornmeal.

  • Cornmeal pancakes with blackberry compote.

  • Through most of the week, we ate cornmeal mush for breakfast and corn pones for bread.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Once the milk mixture comes to a boil, gradually add the cornmeal while continually whisking.

    Blog text (7)
  • I need you to go to the store to get some cornmeal for the recipe.

Synonyms

meal
vscornmeal
133 4.6

Grain ground into small pieces used for cooking or eating

is specific to ground corn rather than to any grain or seed
Indian meal
vscornmeal
  • Archaic
8.0

Corn ground into coarse pieces that people use for food

is about ground dried maize used in cooking and baking

Compounds

1 4.0

A thick hot porridge made by boiling cornmeal in water

How Coarse

grits
  • US
8.1
cornmeal
  • US
18 2.3
cornflour
  • UK
2.7

Surface Forms

cornmeal singular
cornmeals plural

Morphology

cornmeal = corn + meal (transparent) = corn + meal

A direct compound whose meaning 'meal made from corn' is clearly derivable from its parts.

Etymology

The word cornmeal is just two simple parts: corn, which once meant 'any grain' and now often means 'maize', and meal, meaning 'ground grain'. So cornmeal is literally 'ground corn', the coarse flour used for cooking and baking.