• (RP) IPA: /kɔːn/
• (America, CA) IPA: /kɔɹn/

corn (uncountable)

1. (British, uncountable) The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.
2. (US, Canada, Australia, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
3. A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.

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

4. A small, hard particle.

   • corn of sand

   • 1852, Thomas Antisell, Hand-book of the Useful Arts

     corns of powder

• Spanish: maizal

• German: Korn, Getreide, Zerealie
• Italian: grano
• Portuguese: cereal, grãos
• Russian: зерно́
• Spanish: cereal, grano

corn (corns, present participle corning; past and past participle corned)

1. (US, Canada) to granulate; to form a substance into grains

   to corn gunpowder

2. (US, Canada) to preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef
3. (US, Canada) to provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed

   Corn the horses.

4. (transitive) to render intoxicated

   ale strong enough to corn one

• Portuguese: salgar

corn (plural corns)

1. A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
   • c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene v]:

     Welcome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes / Unplagued with corns, will have a bout with you.

   Synonyms: clavus

• French: cor
• German: Hühnerauge
• Italian: callo, durone
• Portuguese: calo
• Russian: мозо́ль
• Spanish: callo

corn (uncountable)

1. (US, Canada) Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
   • 1975, Tschirlie, Backpacker magazine,

     He had a sharp wit, true enough, but also a good, healthy mountaineer's love of pure corn, the slapstick stuff, the in-jokes that get funnier with every repetition and never amuse anybody who wasn't there.

corn (uncountable)

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

   Synonyms: corn snow

1. Surname
2. A town in Oklahoma