millet

Speech parts

1. millet - Noun

2. Millet - Proper noun

Meaning

The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

birdseed farina corn timothy atom food grass cornfield panicum leader grain mile maize cereal oat
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Antonyms

blizzard mountain chunk big number major part high number
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Hypernyms

plant grain cereal cereal grass food grain

Hyponyms

sorghum ragi kurakkan finger millet coracan ragee

Phrases with the word

texas millet ragi millet egyptian millet green millet guinea millet panicled millet

Examples

They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put this book here for you, who once lived So that you should visit us no more. Czesław Miłosz

Today I visited Van Gogh's exhibition. I can not help it, but I think it's art for Eskimos, I can not enjoy it. I find it fairly crude and obnoxious, without the slightest distinction, and besides that everything is stolen from Millet and others. George Hendrik Breitner

At last, here is a new man [ Millet ], who has the knowledge which I would like to have, and movement, color, expression, too, - here is a painter! Narcisse Virgilio Díaz

The Sparrows quarrel over somebody else's millet. Bulgarian Proverb

At the harvest you know how good the millet is. Kenyan Proverb

Where there are many fowls, millet is not scattered. Swahili Proverb

Close letter words and terms

millesimal millesimally Milleson millet bread millet crabgrass millet grass