noun. Any of various annual grasses with small grains that are harvested for food, livestock feed, and birdseed, especially proso millet.

noun. The grains of any of these plants.

noun. A people; a nation.

noun. The green foxtail, Chætochloa viridis.

noun. Same as Indian millet .

noun. A cereal grass, Panicum miliaceum, known from antiquity, and still cultivated in the East and in southern and central Europe.

noun. One of several other grasses: generally with a prefixed descriptive. See below

noun. 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.

noun. A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.

noun. Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food.

noun. any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine

noun. small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica

noun. French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)

"They cultivate a great deal of Indian corn here, which they call millet; it is planted, but not yet up."