granola

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US/ɡɹəˈnoʊlə/

noun

A breakfast and snack food consisting of loose, crispy pellets made of nuts, rolled oats, honey and other natural ingredients.

“You see more and more of the granola hippie activist types these days.”

Less commonScrabble 8

Meanings

noungranola (countable and uncountable, plural granolas)

plural granolas

  1. countableuncountableA breakfast and snack food consisting of loose, crispy pellets made of nuts, rolled oats, honey and other natural ingredients.
  2. abbreviationcountableellipsisslangEllipsis of crunchy granola.
adjectivegranola (comparative more granola, superlative most granola)

comparative more granola · superlative most granola

  1. CanadaUSEating healthy food, supporting the protection of the environment, and having liberal views.

    You see more and more of the granola hippie activist types these days.

    3 more examples

    […]behind them a granola-looking mom in denim overalls and a t-shirt was pulling in to do her drop-off . . . from a Prius.

    2013 November 21, Jame Schaefer, Tobias Winright, Environmental Justice and Climate Change, page 228

    Rather, the anti-vax movement is almost entirely a phenomenon of the affluent crunchy granola Left—as everyone across the political spectrum acknowledged until the last week or so.

    2015 February 13, Dennis Saffran, “The Orwellian Campaign To Project Anti-Vaccination Onto Republicans”, in The Federalist

    Yet some experts believe that voices from the far right are beginning to drown out those of the crunchy granola crowd.

    2020 June 18, Kiera Butler, “The Anti-Vax Movement’s Radical Shift From Crunchy Granola Purists to Far-Right Crusaders”, in Mother Jones

Origin

  1. Italiangrano“grain”
  2. Englishgranola

Genericized trademark from Granola, a brand of breakfast cereal registered in 1886 by Will Keith Kellogg and in use into the early 20th century. It was initially known as Granula and renamed Granola to avoid legal problems with James Caleb Jackson, who invented a similar cereal in 1863, named Granula after the granules of Graham flour, the main ingredient. The food and name were revived in the 1960s. By 1967, it appears in American English, probably from Italian grano (“grain”) or granular + the commercial suffix -ola.

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Translations

Arabic جرانولا
  • جرانولا (jirnula)breakfast and snack food
Chinese Mandarin 穀麥 /谷麦
  • 穀麥 /谷麦 (gǔmài)breakfast and snack food
Czech granola
  • granolabreakfast and snack food
Dutch muesli, crunchy
  • mueslibreakfast and snack food
  • crunchybreakfast and snack food
Esperanto granolo
  • granolobreakfast and snack food
Finnish granola
  • granolabreakfast and snack food
French granola
  • granolabreakfast and snack food
German Knuspermüsli, Granola
  • Knuspermüslibreakfast and snack food
  • Granolabreakfast and snack food
Greek δημητριακά
  • δημητριακά (dimitriaká)breakfast and snack food
Hungarian granola
  • granolabreakfast and snack food
Japanese グラノーラ
  • グラノーラ (guranōra)breakfast and snack food
Korean 그래놀라
  • 그래놀라 (geuraenolla)breakfast and snack food
Polish granola
  • granolabreakfast and snack food
Portuguese granola
  • granolabreakfast and snack food
Russian грано́ла
  • грано́ла (granóla)breakfast and snack food
Spanish granola
  • granolabreakfast and snack food

Rhymes & wordplay

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Cite this entry
APA

granola. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/granola

MLA

“granola.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/granola. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “granola,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/granola.

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