Standard Lemma guide

granola

adj · noun · 4 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: /ɡɹəˈnoʊlə/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -əʊlə
  • CMU ARPABET: G R AH0 N OW1 L AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Eating healthy food, supporting the protection of the environment, and having liberal views.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Canada, US

Examples

  • You see more and more of the granola hippie activist types these days.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A breakfast and snack food consisting of loose, crispy pellets made of nuts, rolled oats, honey and other natural ingredients.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Ellipsis of crunchy granola.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

cereal made of especially rolled oats with dried fruits and nuts and honey or brown sugar

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cold cereal, dry cereal

History

Etymology

Genericized trademark from Granola, a brand of breakfast cereal registered in 1886 by Will Keith Kellogg and in use into the early 20th century. It was initially known as Granula and renamed Granola to avoid legal problems with James Caleb Jackson, who invented a similar cereal in 1863, named Granula after the granules of Graham flour, the main ingredient. The food and name were revived in the 1960s. By 1967, it appears in American English, probably from Italian grano (“grain”) or granular + the commercial suffix -ola.

Across languages

Translations

17 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: جرانولا (jirnula) — breakfast and snack food
  • Chinese Mandarin: 穀麥 /谷麦 (gǔmài) — breakfast and snack food
  • Czech: granola — breakfast and snack food
  • Dutch: muesli — breakfast and snack food
  • Dutch: crunchy — breakfast and snack food
  • Esperanto: granolo — breakfast and snack food
  • Finnish: granola — breakfast and snack food
  • French: granola — breakfast and snack food
  • German: Knuspermüsli — breakfast and snack food
  • German: Granola — breakfast and snack food
  • Greek: δημητριακά (dimitriaká) — breakfast and snack food
  • Hungarian: granola — breakfast and snack food
  • Japanese: グラノーラ (guranōra) — breakfast and snack food
  • Korean: 그래놀라 (geuraenolla) — breakfast and snack food
  • Polish: granola — breakfast and snack food
  • Russian: грано́ла (granóla) — breakfast and snack food
  • Spanish: granola — breakfast and snack food