malt

1. 1.

   a milkshake made with malt powder

   Synonymsmaltedmalted milk

   Broadermilkshake
2. 2.

   a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer

   Synonymsmalt liquor

   Broaderlager
3. 3.

   a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling

   Broadergrain

   Narrowerwort

Other forms of malt

plural

malts·

past tense

malted·

present participle

malting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about malt

What does malt mean?

malt means "treat with malt or malt extract". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in malt?

malt has 1 syllable: malt. In IPA it is /ˈmɔlt/.

What is another word for malt?

Close synonyms include malted, malted milk, malt liquor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is malt a common word?

malt is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.