Millet

Quick meaning: Millet is a noun meaning Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.

Meaning

Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.

More Meanings

1. (specifically) Common millet, in particular of species Panicum miliaceum.
2. (historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one. [from 19th c.]

Example Sentences

The special duties of these millet organizations are to care for the educational and other moral wants of the people […]

[…] 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.’

[…] 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.

Word Forms

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Related dictionary entries include sorghum, proso, grain, bulrush, panicled, bullrush.

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