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say it: oht
oat is a noun meaning "annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')". It is pronounced /ˈoʊt/ — oht. It carries 2 recorded senses.
annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')
seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')
plural
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for oat come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.