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/ˈmɪlɪt/ · noun
Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world..
[…] Tobias said, ‘Don't bother. Elena's allergic to all known food groups. The only thing she eats here is seasoned millet and rainwater they bring down from Vermont in a zinc can.’
The special duties of these millet organizations are to care for the educational and other moral wants of the people […]
[…] in support for a common Serbian Orthodox Church, the one traditional institution permitted to exist under the Ottoman millet system which sought to rule subject peoples indirectly through their own religious hierarchies.
Christians and Jews as People of the Book […] were organized into separate communities, or millets, defined by their common practice of the same religion, which was guaranteed as protected as long as it was primarily practised in private.
Use millet when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Millet means Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world..
Common synonyms include broomcorn millet, hog millet, panicum miliaceum.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] Tobias said, ‘Don't bother. Elena's allergic to all known food groups. The only thing she eats here is seasoned millet and rainwater they bring down from Vermont in a zinc can.’
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