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popcorn

noun · verb · 14 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.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɒp.kɔːn/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˈpɑp.kɔɹn/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Boston, New-England: /ˈpʌp.kɔɹn/
  • Boston, New-England: [ˈpʌp.kɒːn]
  • Boston, New-England: [ˈpʌp.kɔɹn]
  • India: /ˈpɔːp.kɔː(r)n/
  • India: /ˈpɑːp.kɑː(r)n/ father-bother merger
  • CMU ARPABET: P AA1 P K AO2 R N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • My friends and I ordered popcorn during the interval of the movie.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: maizypop, popmaize

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A serving of popcorn.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A piece of popcorn.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, rare

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A type of corn or maize with a hard outer hull that, along with the type of starch it contains, makes it suitable for popping.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: popmaize

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A kind of stitch similar to a bobble.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: business, knitting, manufacturing, textiles

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A form of brainstorming in which participants call out their ideas immediately, instead of waiting for an assigned turn to speak.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: attributive, countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

Entertainment for observers.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, humorous, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

A slow Belgian style of soul music popular in the early 1960s.

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

9

noun

Meaning 9

A Romanian style of Europop popular in the late 2000s.

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

10

verb

Meaning 10

To stand or jump up quickly.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

verb

Meaning 11

To pop repeatedly, like popcorn cooking.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

verb

Meaning 12

To use the popcorn stitch.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare

Topics: business, knitting, manufacturing, textiles

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

small kernels of corn exploded by heat

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: corn, edible corn

14

noun

Meaning 14

corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Zea mays everta

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: corn, maize, Indian corn, Zea mays

History

Etymology

Short for popped corn. By surface analysis, pop + corn.

Across languages

Translations

155 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: springmielie — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Albanian: kokoshka — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Albanian: pupagjel — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Albanian: palagaçe — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Albanian: kupaça — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Albanian: pucka — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Albanian: kokoroshka — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Albanian: kokica (Prishtina) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Albanian: kupa — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Albanian: pupacela — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Albanian: laradasha — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Arabic: فِشَار (fišār) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Arabic: فُشَار (fušār) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Arabic: نفيش (nuffēš) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Arabic: فِشار (fišār) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Armenian: ադի-բուդի (adi-budi) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Asturian: flaire — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Azerbaijani: popkorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Belarusian: папко́рн (papkórn) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Bengali: পপকর্ন (popokorno) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Bengali: ভুট্টার খই (bhuṭṭar khoi) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Bulgarian: пу́канки (púkanki) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Burmese: ပြောင်းဖူးပေါက်ပေါက် (praung:hpu:paukpauk) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Catalan: crispeta — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Catalan: rosa — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Catalan: roseta — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Catalan: gallet — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Catalan: clotxa — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Catalan: mongeta — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Cebuano: papkorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Cherokee: ᏎᎷ ᎠᎾᏔᏍᎩᏍᎩ (selu anatasgisgi) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Chinese Cantonese: 爆穀 /爆谷 (baau3 guk1) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Chinese Mandarin: 玉米花 (yùmǐhuā) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Chinese Mandarin: 爆米花 (bàomǐhuā) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Czech: popcorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Czech: popkorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Czech: pražená kukuřice — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Danish: popcorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Dutch: gepofte maïs — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Dutch: pof-maïs — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Dutch: popcorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Esperanto: krevmaizo — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Esperanto: pufmaizo — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Estonian: popkorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Estonian: plaksumais — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Finnish: popcorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Finnish: paukkumaissi — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Finnish: paahtomaissi — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • French: popcorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • French: maïs soufflé — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • French: maïs éclaté — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Galician: floco de millo — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Georgian: პოპკორნი (ṗoṗḳorni) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Georgian: ბატი-ბუტი (baṭi-buṭi) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • German: Popcorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • German: Puffmais — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Greek: ποπ κορν (pop korn) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Pontic Greek: σπανούκα (spanoúka) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Gujarati: મકાઈની ધાણી (makāīnī dhāṇī) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Gujarati: ફૂલી (phūlī) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Hebrew: פּוֹפְּקוֹרְן — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Hindi: पॉपकॉर्न (pŏpkŏrn) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Hungarian: pattogatott kukorica — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Icelandic: poppkorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Ido: grilita maizo — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Indonesian: berondong jagung — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Irish: grán rósta — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Italian: popcorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Italian: mais scoppiato — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Italian: mais soffiato — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Japanese: ポップコーン (poppukōn) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Kazakh: попкорн (popkorn) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Khmer: ពោតលីង — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Korean: 팝콘 (papkon) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Kyrgyz: попкорн (popkorn) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Lao: ຕອກແຕກ (tǭk tǣk) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Latvian: popkorns — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Lithuanian: popkornas — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Macedonian: пуканки (pukanki) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Malay: bertih jagung — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Māori: kānga pāhūhū — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Marathi: लाह्या (lāhyā) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Marathi: मक्याच्या लाह्या (makyācyā lāhyā) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Mongolian: эрдэнэ шиш (erdene šiš) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Mongolian: дэмий яриа (demii jaria) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Nahuatl: momochitl — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Navajo: naadą́ą́ʼ dilchxoshí — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Navajo: diltáłii — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Norwegian Bokmål: popkorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: popkorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Nubi: mberenge — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Pannonian Rusyn: пуканки (pukanki) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Persian: پف فیل (pofefil) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Persian: چس فیل (čos-e fil) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Persian: پاپکرن (pâpkorn) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Plautdietsch: Poppkorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Polish: popcorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Polish: prażona kukurydza — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Portuguese: pipoca — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Punjabi: ਫੁੱਲਾ (phullā) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Punjabi: ਖਿੱਲ (khilla) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Romanian: floricele de porumb — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Romanian: cocoșei — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Romanian: pop-corn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Russian: попко́рн (popkórn) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Serbo-Croatian: кокице — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Serbo-Croatian: kokice — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Slovak: pražená kukurica — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Slovak: popkorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Slovene: pokovka — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: palomitas de maíz — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: cabritas — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: cancha — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: canchita — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: canguil — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: cotufas — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: crispetas — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: esquites — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: gallitos — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: maíz pira — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: millos — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: pipocas — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: pochoclos — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: pop — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: popcorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: poporopos — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: pororó — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: pururú — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: roscas — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: rosetas maiceras — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: rositas de maíz — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: tostón — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: ancua — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: ezquites — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Spanish: piras — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Swahili: bisi — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Swedish: popcorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Tagalog: busang mais — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Tagalog: binusang mais — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Tagalog: papkorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Tajik: попкорн (popkorn) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Tamil: சோளப்பொரி (cōḷappori) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Thai: ป๊อปคอร์น (bpɔ́p-kɔɔn) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Thai: ข้าวโพดคั่ว (kâao-pôot-kûua) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Turkish: patlamış mısır — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Turkish: patlayan mısır — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Turkmen: popkorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Ukrainian: попко́рн (popkórn) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Uzbek: popkorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Venetan: móneghe — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Vietnamese: bắp rang — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Vietnamese: bỏng ngô — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Welsh: popgorn — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Yiddish: פּאַפּקאָרן (papkorn) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
  • Yiddish: קאָקאָשעס (kokoshes) — a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
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