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cornmeal

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /ˈkɔɹnˌmil/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːnˌmiːl/
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  • CMU ARPABET: K AO1 R N M IY2 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Dried corn (maize) milled (ground) to a meal, especially a coarse one.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • She made a kind of polenta from cornmeal and chicken broth, with some cheese sprinkled on top.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: maizemeal

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: meal, flour, foodstuff

2

noun

Meaning 2

Any cereal grain meal or flour.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, countable, especially, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

coarsely ground corn

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Indian meal

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: meal

History

Etymology

From corn + meal.

Across languages

Translations

24 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: farina de blat de moro — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Cherokee: ᏎᎷ ᎢᏌ (selu isa) — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Chinese Mandarin: 玉米麵 /玉米面 (yùmǐmiàn) — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Chinese Mandarin: 玉米粉 (yùmifěn) — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Choctaw: ta̱shbota — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Finnish: karkea maissijauho — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • French: farine de maïs — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Galician: fariña de millo — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • German: Maisgrieß — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Greek: καλαμποκάλευρο (kalampokálevro) — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Hebrew: קמח תירס (kemakh tiras) — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Kabuverdianu: rolon — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Plautdietsch: Kornmäl — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Polish: kasza kukurydziana — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Portuguese: fubá — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Romanian: făină de porumb — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Romanian: mălai — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Russian: кукуру́зная мука́ (kukurúznaja muká) — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Scottish Gaelic: min-bhuidhe — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Spanish: harina de maíz — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Swedish: majsmjöl — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Ukrainian: кукуру́дзяне бо́рошно (kukurúdzjane bórošno) — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Yiddish: פּאַפּשױ מעל (papshoy mel) — dried corn milled to a coarse meal
  • Yiddish: פּאַפּשוימעל (papshoymel) — dried corn milled to a coarse meal