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# oatmeal

noun (oatmeal — uncountable); adjective (oatmeal — a colour)

«oatmeal» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Oats that have been crushed or ground, used to make porridge, oatcakes and biscuits. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/#m1)
2. (USA, Canada) Hot porridge made from oats. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/#m2)
3. A pale greyish-brown colour, like oats: an oatmeal jumper. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/#m3)

### In the lessons

Everyday food word: oatmeal for breakfast, oatmeal cookies. In science and health: oats give slow energy and fibre. Colour words in shops: oatmeal carpet. Old stories of Scotland and the north of England mention oatmeal as a main food.

### Examples

- I eat a bowl of oatmeal before school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/#x1)
- Gran makes oatmeal cookies with raisins. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/#x2)
- The Scots made oatcakes from oatmeal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/#x3)
- The sofa is an oatmeal colour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/#x4)
- Add milk to the oatmeal and stir. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/#x5)
- Oatmeal keeps you full all morning. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/#x6)
- So she baked two oatmeal bannocks, and set them on to the fire to harden. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/#x7)

### Note

Uncountable: some oatmeal, a bowl of oatmeal. In the UK «porridge» is the cooked dish and «oatmeal» the ground oats; in North America «oatmeal» is used for both.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «oatmeal» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«oatmeal» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/oatmeal.html) on Mova free.