Millet

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
   countable, uncountable
3. A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
   historical
4. A town in Alberta, Canada.
5. Common millet, in particular of species Panicum miliaceum.
   countable, specifically, uncountable

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Examples

“[…] 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.’”

“The special duties of these millet organizations are to care for the educational and other moral wants of the people […]”

“[…] 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.”

“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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