millets

Noun (1)

millet (countable and uncountable, plural millets)

1. 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.’1991, Douglas Coupland, “Adventure without risk is Disneyland”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 155
2. (specifically) Common millet, in particular of species Panicum miliaceum.

Noun (2)

millet (plural millets)

1. (historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
   • The special duties of these millet organizations are to care for the educational and other moral wants of the people […]1880, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, page 963

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