oats

English

Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: -əʊts

Noun

oats (plural oats)

1. plural of oat
2. (plural only, uncountable) 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.

3. (plural only, uncountable) Seeds of an oat plant, especially prepared as food.

   Oats is a heart-healthy breakfast food.

   Oats are good for you.

Synonyms

• haver

Coordinate terms

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

Derived terms

• feel one's oats
• sow one's wild oats
• get one's oats

Translations

seeds of an oat plant

• Armenian: վարսակ (hy) (varsak)
• Aromanian: uvedz n, vromi f
• Bashkir: һоло (holo)
• Catalan: civada
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 燕麥, 燕麦 (jin³ mak⁶)

  Mandarin: 燕麥 (zh), 燕麦 (zh) (yànmài)

• Chuvash: сӗлӗ (sĕlĕ)
• Czech: oves (cs) m
• Dalmatian: vun
• Danish: havregryn (da)
• Dutch: haver (nl) m
• 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
• German: Hafer (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: βρόμος m (brómos)

• Irish: coirce m
• Italian: avena (it) f
• Kalmyk: суль (sul')
• Kashubian: óws m
• Kazakh: сұлы (kk) (sulı)
• Khmer: អាវ័ន (aavoan)

• Latin: avēna f
• Macedonian: овес m (oves)
• Manx: sheel m
• Mongolian: овъёос (mn) (ovʺjoos)
• Navajo: taaskaal
• Nogai: сулы (sulı)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: havre m

  Nynorsk: havre m

• Occitan: civada (oc) f
• Polish: owies (pl) m
• Portuguese: aveia (pt) f
• Romanian: ovăz (ro) n
• Russian: овёс (ru) m (ovjós)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wows m

• Spanish: avena (es) f
• Swedish: havre (sv) n
• Tatar: солы (tt) (solı)
• Turkish: yulaf (tr)
• Uyghur: سۇلۇ‎ (sulu)
• Venetian: véna f pl
• Walloon: avoenne (wa) f
• Welsh: ceirch f pl
• Yiddish: האָבער‎ m (hober)

Anagrams

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