Corn Definition

kôrn

corns

noun

corns

A tiny, hard particle, as of salt or sand; granule; grain.

Webster's New World

A cultivated American cereal plant (Zea mays) of the grass family, with the grain borne on cobs enclosed in husks; maize.

Webster's New World

The ears or kernels of this cereal plant.

Webster's New World

The seeds of all cereal grasses, as wheat, rye, barley, etc.; grain.

Webster's New World

A small, hard seed or seedlike fruit, esp. a seed or grain of a cereal grass; kernel.

Peppercorn, barleycorn.

Webster's New World

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verb

corns

To form into granules.

Webster's New World

To preserve or pickle with salt granules or in brine.

Webster's New World

To preserve (beef, for example) in brine.

American Heritage

To feed grain to (animals)

Webster's New World

To form hard particles; become grainy.

American Heritage

Synonyms:

other

Wiktionary

suffix

Having (such) horns; one having (such) horns.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Corn

Singular:

corn

Plural:

corns

From Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), neuter participle of Proto-Indo-European *ǵer- (“to wear down”), or a substantivized form of *ǵr̥h₂-nós (“matured, grown old”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”). Cognate with Dutch koren, Low German Koorn, German Korn, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish korn; see also Russian зерно (zerno), Czech zrno, Latin grānum, Lithuanian žirnis, Persian خرمن (xarman), and English grain.

From Wiktionary
Middle English corne from Old French horn from Latin cornū ker-¹ in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English grain from Old English gr̥ə-no- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
This use was first used in 1932, as corny, something appealing to country folk.

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From Old French corn (modern French cor).

From Wiktionary
Latin cornu (“horn")

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