A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder. / The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. / Rye bread. / (US, Canada) Rye whiskey.

(childish) A nickname of the given name Ryan.

plural of rye

A small town and civil parish in East Sussex, England. / A hamlet and civil parish in Hampshire, England. / A river in North Yorkshire, England that flows through Ryedale to join the Derwent.

A commune in Calvados department, Normandy, France.

plural of rye bread

(cooking) A bread made partly or entirely with rye flour.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rye, seed. / Caraway seed, used whole as a flavoring in the best-known type of rye bread, and often mistakenly assumed to be the rye itself.

plural of rye flake

(chiefly in the plural) A rye groat that is cut, cooked and rolled into a flake, used as a breakfast cereal.