Cereal vs Congee - What's the difference?
cereal | congee |
(countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
(uncountable) The grains of such a grass.
(uncountable) Breakfast cereal.
(countable) A particular type of breakfast cereal.
(obsolete) Formal departure, ceremonial leave-taking.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.i:
(archaic) A bow.
*, II.17:
* 1819 , (Walter Scott), Ivanhoe :
A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.
As nouns the difference between cereal and congee
is that cereal is a type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains while congee is formal departure, ceremonial leave-taking.As a proper noun Cereal
is a village in Alberta, Canada.cereal
English
(wikipedia cereal)Noun
(en-noun)- Would you like some cereal ?
- Which cereal would you like for breakfast?
Hyponyms
*Derived terms
* cereal bar * cereal dust * cereal killer * pseudocerealExternal links
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* * * English eponyms ----congee
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Alternative forms
* conge *Noun
(en noun)- So courteous conge both did giue and take, / With right hands plighted, pledges of good will.
- As salutations, reverences, or conges , by which some doe often purchase the honour, (but wrongfully) to be humble, lowly, and courteous.
- “My daughter Rebecca, so please your Grace,” answered Isaac, with a low congee , nothing embarrassed by the Prince’s salutation, in which, however, there was at least as much mockery as courtesy.