Noun

(en-noun)

(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.

Would you like some cereal ?

(countable) A particular type of breakfast cereal.

Which cereal would you like for breakfast?

Noun

(-)

Grain that is to be ground in a mill.

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(obsolete) A group of bees.

(colloquial, obsolete) Supply; provision.

(Jonathan Swift)

(ropemaking) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.

(Knight)