grain – English noun declension

English noun forms of grain

Noun: grain
Singulargrain
Pluralgrains

Sample Sentences

  • Near-synonym: corn (broad sense, maize and others)
  • We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.
  • Near-synonym: corn (broad sense, maize and others)
  • a grain of wheat
  • grains of oat
  • The fields were planted with grain.
  • A grain, which in England is generally given to horſes, but which in Scotland ſupports the people. [1755 April 15, Samuel Johnson, “Oats”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume II (L–Z), London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], →OCLC, column 1:]
  • Cut along the grain of the wood.
  • He doesn't like to shave against the grain.
  • a grain of sand
  • a grain of salt
  • all in a robe of darkest grain [1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, “Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC:]
  • […] doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colours of less value, then give them the last tincture of crimson in grain. [a. 1825, Quoted by Coleridge, preface to Aids to Reflection]
  • The grain of the leather is also sometimes damaged by the filling , by the taking off the hair , and by the river work. [1773, Royal Dublin Society, The Art of Tanning and of Currying Leather:]
  • brothers […] not united in grain [a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:]

Etymology

From Middle English greyn, grayn, grein, from Old French grain, grein, from Latin grānum (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain”). Doublet of corn, gram, granum, and grao. See: Middle English Nouns 'greyn', Latin Nouns 'grānum'.

Verbs referencing "grain"

Finnish Nouns graini.