millet

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see also: Millet

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Pronunciation

• (America, RP) IPA: /ˈmɪlɪt/

Noun

millet

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

Translations

• French: millet
• German: Hirse
• Italian: miglio
• Portuguese: milheto, milhete
• Russian: про́со
• Spanish: mijo

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmɪlɛt/

Noun

millet (plural millets)

1. (historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
   • 2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain, Hurst & Co. 2007, page 14 ↗:

     […] 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.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 262:

     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.

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Millet

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Proper noun

1. Surname
2. A town in Alberta, Canada

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