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corn¹
- /ˈkɔːn/ UK
- /ˈkoɹn/ Canada, US
- [ko̞ɹn] Canada, US
- /ˈkoːn/ Australia
- [ko̝ːn] Australia
- /ˈkoːn/ New Zealand
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)n
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”).
Cognate with Dutch koren, German Low German Koorn, German Korn, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë, Russian зерно́ (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin grānum and Lithuanian žirnis. Doublet of grain, gram, granum, and grao.
The sense maize (Zea mays) is an ellipsis of Indian corn that developed in 18th century North America.
noun corns
- Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region. And hee ſaid, Beholde, I haue heard that there is corne in Egypt: get you downe thither and buy for vs from thence, that we may liue, and not die.
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Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
The planting or sowing of maize, exclusively called corn, was just accomplished on the Town Hill, when I reached it.
Similar: Indian corn
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A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.
He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.
Similar: grain
- A small, hard particle. The least corn of sand is not so small to the whole earth, as man is to the heaven:[…]
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A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
Similar: corn snow
- Bullets, ammunition, and charge and discharge of firearms. R.I.P Scumpy ah you did say Popcaan And if a boy diss we clap corn.
- Money. You know dem have wedge while we have corn. Say Cockney say be first, my son! We just say Gwan!
verb corns · corning · corned
- To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains. to corn gunpowder
- To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.
- To provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed. Corn the horses.
- To render intoxicated. ale strong enough to corn one
- To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn). Anywhere, anytime, I'll get him, if he's in love; I'll corn his wedding He backed his wetter, I backed my wetter but who really held that wetting?
corn²
- /ˈkɔːn/ UK
- /ˈkoɹn/ Canada, US
- [ko̞ɹn] Canada, US
- /ˈkoːn/ Australia
- [ko̝ːn] Australia
- /ˈkoːn/ New Zealand
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)n
Where it comes from
English cornInherited from Middle English corne, from Old French corn (modern French cor), from Latin cornū. Doublet of corno, cornu, and horn.
noun corns
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A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
Welcome Gentlemen, / Ladies that haue their toes / Vnplagu’d with Cornes, will walke about with you:[…]
Similar: clavus
- An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.
- Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.
corn³
- /ˈkɔːn/ UK
- /ˈkoɹn/ Canada, US
- [ko̞ɹn] Canada, US
- /ˈkoːn/ Australia
- [ko̝ːn] Australia
- /ˈkoːn/ New Zealand
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)n
Where it comes from
From corny.
noun
- Something (e.g., acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion. He had a sharp wit, true enough, but also a good, healthy mountaineer's love of pure corn, the slapstick stuff, the in-jokes that get funnier with every repetition and never amuse anybody who wasn't there.
corn⁴
- /ˈkɔːn/ UK
- /ˈkoɹn/ Canada, US
- [ko̞ɹn] Canada, US
- /ˈkoːn/ Australia
- [ko̝ːn] Australia
- /ˈkoːn/ New Zealand
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)n
Where it comes from
Rhyming euphemism for porn, and with influence from the emoji substitute 🌽.
noun
- pornography; porn
Corn⁵
Where it comes from
* As an English surname, from the nouns crane, corn, and quern.
* As a German surname, spelling variant of Korn, meaning "grain."
proper noun
- A surname.
- A town in Oklahoma.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: maize, wheat, indian corn, corn whiskey, clavus, corn whisky, edible corn, zea mays, grain, barley, cereal, schmaltz, cornfield, oats, crust, oat
Translations
Talk about this word "corn." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/corn. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. corn. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/corn "corn." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/corn.Cite this
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