oats

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊts/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊts/

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• Rhymes: -əʊts

Noun

oats

1. plural of oat

Noun

oats sg or pl

1. A mass of oat plants (genus Avena, especially Avena sativa).

   Oats are in the north corner of the farm.

   Usually oats is last in a rotation and does not get the fertilizer that other feed grains get.

2. Seeds of an oat plant, especially prepared as food.

   Oats is a heart-healthy breakfast food.

   Oats are good for you.

Usage notes

For millennia, oats were wrongly believed to be a degenerate form of another grain. This contempt may underlie Samuel Johnson's infamous definition in his 1755 A Dictionary of the English Language

A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Synonyms

• haver

Coordinate terms

• (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat

Derived terms

• feel one's oats
• get one's oats
• know one's oats
• overnight oats
• river oats
• rolled oats
• sea oats
• sow one's wild oats
• wild oats

 

Translations

seeds of an oat plant

• Adyghe: зэнтхъ (zɛntχ)
• Afrikaans: hawer
• Arabic: شُوفَان m (šūfān)
• Armenian: վարսակ (hy) (varsak)
• Aromanian: uvedz n, vromi f
• Avar: ниха (nixa)
• Bashkir: һоло (holo)
• Bats: შვრივ (švriv)
• Catalan: civada (ca)
• Chechen: сула (sula), кена (kena)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 燕麥／燕麦 (jin³ mak⁶)

  Mandarin: 燕麥／燕麦 (zh) (yànmài)

• Chuvash: сӗлӗ (sĕlĕ)
• Czech: oves (cs) m
• Dalmatian: vun
• Danish: havregryn (da)
• Dutch: haver (nl) m
• Esperanto: aveno
• Finnish: kaura (fi) (as food), kauransiemen (for sowing)
• French: avoine (fr) f, flocon d’avoine (fr) m
• Friulian: vene f
• Galician: avea (gl) f, balloca f, nocella f
• Georgian: შვრია (ka) (švria)
• German: Hafer (de) m
• Greek: βρώμη (el) f (vrómi)

  Ancient: βρόμος m (brómos)

• Hungarian: zab (hu)
• Icelandic: hafrar m pl
• Ingrian: kagra
• Ingush: кен (ken), сул (sul)
• Irish: coirce m
• Italian: avena (it) f
• Kabardian: зэнтхъ (kbd) (zɛntχ), авос (kbd) (avos)
• Kalmyk: суль (sulʹ)
• Karachay-Balkar: зынтхы (zıntxı)
• Kashubian: óws m
• Kazakh: сұлы (kk) (sūly)
• Khmer: អាវ័ន (aavoan)
• Latin: avēna f
• Laz: ალაჶი (alafi)
• Macedonian: овес m (oves)
• Manx: sheel m
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: шӱльӧ (šüĺö)

• Mingrelian: რჩვია (rčvia)
• Mongolian: овъёос (mn) (ovʺjoos)
• Navajo: taaskaal
• Nogai: сулы (sulı)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: havre m

  Nynorsk: havre m

• Occitan: civada (oc) f
• Ossetian: сысджы (sysǵy), зӕтхӕ (zætxæ)
• Polish: owies (pl) m
• Portuguese: aveia (pt) f
• Romanian: ovăz (ro) n
• Russian: овёс (ru) m (ovjós)
• Scottish Gaelic: coirce m
• Serbo-Croatian: zob (sh) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wows m

• Southern Altai: сула (sula)
• Spanish: avena (es) f
• Svan: ზჷნთხ (zəntx)
• Swedish: havre (sv) n
• Tatar: солы (tt) (solı)
• Turkish: yulaf (tr)
• Uyghur: سۇلۇ (sulu)
• Venetan: véna f pl
• Vietnamese: yến mạch (vi)
• Walloon: avoenne (wa) f
• Welsh: ceirch f pl
• Yiddish: האָבער m (hober)
• Yola: oathès

Anagrams

• ASOT, Tsao, taos, SOTA, Sota, OTAs, toas, Taos, ATOs, stoa, tosa, as to, oast, Sato