English Dictionary

corn

/kɔːn/

noun

(chiefly Britain, uncountable) Any cereal plant grown for its grain, or the grain thereof. / (US, Canada, Australia, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.

I love eating corn on the cob.

意味（1）

(chiefly Britain, uncountable) Any cereal plant grown for its grain, or the grain thereof.

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.

意味（2）

(US, Canada, Australia, uncountable) 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.

意味（3）

A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.

He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.

意味（4）

A small, hard particle.

The least corn of sand is not so small to the whole earth, as man is to the heaven:[…]

意味（5）

(uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.

意味（6）

(Jamaica, MLE, slang, firearms, uncountable) bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms

R.I.P Scumpy ah you did say Popcaan

R.I.P Scumpy ah you did say Popcaan And if a boy diss we clap corn.

意味（7）

(Jamaica, slang, uncountable) money.

You know dem have wedge while we have corn. Say Cockney say be first, my son! We just say Gwan!