Associations to the word «Millet»

Wiktionary

MILLET, noun. Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
MILLET, noun. (historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
MILLET, proper noun. A surname​.
MILLET, proper noun. A town in Alberta, Canada

Dictionary definition

MILLET, noun. Any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine.
MILLET, noun. French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875).
MILLET, noun. Small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope