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millet — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • folk adj Belonging to or originating from ordinary people, their traditions, and their culture, rather than experts or elites.
  • millet noun Any of several small-grained cereal grasses grown for food, widely eaten across Africa and Asia.
  • multitude noun A very large number of people or things.
  • nation noun A large group of people who share a common history, culture, language, or identity, often but not always tied to a specific country.
  • people noun Human beings in general, or the men, women and children of a particular group, place or nation.

Senses

millet is used for these senses in English:

  • folk (countable, archaic) A people; a tribe or nation; the inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
  • millet (historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
  • multitude The mass of ordinary people; the masses, the populace.
  • nation (collective) A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
  • people a body of persons considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.

folk — full definition

  1. adj Belonging to or originating from ordinary people, their traditions, and their culture, rather than experts or elites.
  2. noun A genre of traditional or traditionally-styled music, often acoustic and rooted in a particular culture.

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