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breakfast cereal

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A food made from processed grains, such as maize, oats, wheat or rice, usually eaten for breakfast with milk and sometimes sugar, fruit, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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  • Arabic: حُبُوب الإِفْطَار (ḥubūb al-ʔifṭār) — food made from processed grains
  • Armenian: շիլա (šila) — food made from processed grains
  • Belarusian: кукуру́зныя шматкі́ (kukurúznyja šmatkí) — food made from processed grains
  • Chinese Mandarin: 早餐穀物 /早餐谷物 (zǎocān gǔwù) — food made from processed grains
  • Chinese Mandarin: 穀類食品 /谷类食品 (gǔlèi shípǐn) — food made from processed grains
  • Chinese Mandarin: 麥片 /麦片 (màipiàn) — food made from processed grains
  • Esperanto: matenmanĝa cerealaĵo — food made from processed grains
  • Finnish: aamiaismurot — food made from processed grains
  • Finnish: murot — food made from processed grains
  • French: céréale de petit déjeuner — food made from processed grains
  • French: céréales — food made from processed grains
  • German: Frühstücksflocken — food made from processed grains
  • Greek: δημητριακά (dimitriaká) — food made from processed grains
  • Hebrew: דִּגְנֵי בֹּקֶר (dignéi bóqer) — food made from processed grains
  • Hindi: नाश्ते का अनाज (nāśte kā anāj) — food made from processed grains
  • Hungarian: gabonapehely — food made from processed grains
  • Hungarian: zabpehely — food made from processed grains
  • Hungarian: müzli — food made from processed grains
  • Hungarian: kukoricapehely — food made from processed grains
  • Hungarian: rizspehely — food made from processed grains
  • Icelandic: morgunkorn — food made from processed grains
  • Indonesian: sereal — food made from processed grains
  • Italian: cereale da prima colazione — food made from processed grains
  • Italian: cereale da colazione — food made from processed grains
  • Italian: cereale — food made from processed grains
  • Japanese: シリアル (shiriaru) — food made from processed grains
  • Khmer: នំស្រួយ (num sruəy) — food made from processed grains
  • Korean: 시리얼 (sirieol) — food made from processed grains
  • Malay: bijirin sarapan — food made from processed grains
  • Māori: pata kai — food made from processed grains
  • Norwegian Bokmål: frokostblanding — food made from processed grains
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: frukostblanding — food made from processed grains
  • Iranian Persian: بِرِشْتوک (bereštuk) — food made from processed grains
  • Iranian Persian: غَلاتِ صُبْحانِه (ġalât-e sobhâne) — food made from processed grains
  • Polish: płatki śniadaniowe — food made from processed grains
  • Portuguese: cereal matinal — food made from processed grains
  • Romanian: cereale — food made from processed grains
  • Russian: хло́пья (xlópʹja) — food made from processed grains
  • Russian: кукуру́зные хло́пья (kukurúznyje xlópʹja) — food made from processed grains
  • Russian: сухо́й за́втрак (suxój závtrak) — food made from processed grains
  • Serbo-Croatian: žitarice za doručak — food made from processed grains
  • Slovene: kosmiči — food made from processed grains
  • Spanish: cereal — food made from processed grains
  • Spanish: confleis — food made from processed grains
  • Spanish: confleys — food made from processed grains
  • Spanish: cereales — food made from processed grains
  • Spanish: cereal desayunador — food made from processed grains
  • Swedish: flingor — food made from processed grains
  • Swedish: frukostflingor — food made from processed grains
  • Turkish: kahvaltılık gevrek — food made from processed grains
  • Turkish: mısır gevreği — food made from processed grains
  • Ukrainian: пластівці́ (plastivcí) — food made from processed grains
  • Vietnamese: ngũ cốc ăn sáng — food made from processed grains
  • Welsh: grawnfwyd — food made from processed grains