Millet vs. Ottoman

Milletnoun

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

Ottomannoun

An upholstered sofa, without arms or a back, sometimes with a compartment for storing linen, etc.

Milletnoun

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

Ottomannoun

A low stool or thick cushion used to rest the feet or as a seat.

Milletnoun

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.

Ottomannoun

A fabric with a pronounced ribbed or corded effect, often made of silk or a mixture of cotton and silk-like yarns.

Milletnoun

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

Ottomanadjective

Of or pertaining to the Turks; as, the Ottoman power or empire.

Milletnoun

French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)

Ottomannoun

A Turk.

Milletnoun

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

Ottomannoun

A stuffed seat without a back, originally used in Turkey.

Milletnoun

a cereal grown in warm countries and regions with poor soils, bearing a large crop of small seeds which are chiefly used to make flour.

Ottomannoun

a Turk (especially a Turk who is a member of the tribe of Osman I)

Millet

Millets () are a group of highly variable small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food. Millets are important crops in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa (especially in India, Mali, Nigeria, and Niger), with 97% of millet production in developing countries.

Ottomannoun

the Turkish dynasty that ruled the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century to its dissolution after World War I

Ottomannoun

thick cushion used as a seat

Ottomannoun

a low stool to rest the feet of a seated person

Ottomanadjective

of or relating to the Ottoman Empire or its people or its culture