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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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats