What is the name meaning of MILLE. Phrases containing MILLE
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English and French (Léonard)
English and French (Léonard) : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements leo ‘lion’ (a late addition to the vocabulary of Germanic name elements, taken from Latin) + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’, which was taken to England by the Normans. A saint of this name, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th century, but about whom nothing is known except for a largely fictional life dating from half a millennium later, was popular throughout Europe in the early Middle Ages and was regarded as the patron of peasants and horses.Irish (Fermanagh) : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Fhionáin or of Langan.Americanized form of Italian Leonardo or cognate forms in other European languages.The French Léonard family were at Château Richer, Quebec, by 1698, having come from Maine, France.
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English (chiefly Gloucestershire and Worcestershire)
English (chiefly Gloucestershire and Worcestershire) : variant of Millward.French (northern) : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements mil ‘good’, ‘gracious’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.Southern French : from a variant spelling of Occitan milhar ‘millet field’ (from mil ‘millet’).
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English (chiefly West Midlands)
English (chiefly West Midlands) : occupational name for someone in charge of a mill, from Old English mylen ‘mill’ + weard ‘guardian’. In southern England and the West Midlands this was a standard medieval term for a miller. Compare Miller.
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English
English : topographic name for a miller, who lived ‘at the mill house’ (Middle English mille + hus; compare Mullis), or possibly a habitational name from any of various places so named.
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English
English : habitational name from Milwich in Staffordshire, so named from Old English myln ‘mill’ + wīc ‘dairy farm’; ‘(trading) settlement’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Millet.Irish (mainly County Mayo) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mealóid, from an occupational or status name derived from Latin miles ‘soldier’.
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English and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
English and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a worker at a mill, from Middle English mille ‘mill’ + man ‘man’, Yiddish mil + man.
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English
English : occupational name for a grinder of grain, i.e. a miller, Middle English, Old English grindere, an agent noun from Old English grindan ‘to grind’. Less often it may have referred to someone who ground blades to keep their sharpness or who ground pigments, spices, and medicinal herbs to powder.
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French
French : from the Germanic personal name Milo (see Miles 1).English : variant spelling of Mill.Dutch : variant of Miele.
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English
English : occupational name for someone who produced or used malt for brewing, from an agent derivative of Middle English malt ‘malt’, ‘germinated barley’ (Old English mealt).English (of Norman origin) : according to Reaney, a habitational name from some place in France called Maleterre, from Old French male terre ‘bad land’ (Latin mala terra).German : metonymic occupational name for a grain measurer or a maker of grain measures, or for a miller, from Middle High German malter, a measure of grain.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : unexplained.
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English
English : variant spelling of Milledge.
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Irish
Irish : variant of Mullen.English : from Old French Milon, an inflected form of the personal name Miles (see Miles 1).English : from Middle English milne, adjectival form of mille ‘mill’, or perhaps a topographic name for someone living in a lane leading to a mill, from Middle English mille, milne ‘mill’ + lane, lone ‘lane’.Dutch : patronymic from Miele 3.
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Scottish and English
Scottish and English : topographic name for someone who lived near a mill, Middle English mille, milne (Old English myl(e)n, from Latin molina, a derivative of molere ‘to grind’). It was usually in effect an occupational name for a worker at a mill or for the miller himself. The mill, whether powered by water, wind, or (occasionally) animals, was an important center in every medieval settlement; it was normally operated by an agent of the local landowner, and individual peasants were compelled to come to him to have their grain ground into flour, a proportion of the ground grain being kept by the miller by way of payment.English : from a short form of a personal name, probably female, as for example Millicent.
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English
English : variant of Mingy (see Mingee).German : from a pet form of the personal name Meinhardt.German : altered form of French Munier ‘miller’.Norwegian : habitational name from a farm name in Østfold, of obscure etymology.
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English
English : variant spelling of Mills.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : occupational name for a miller. The standard modern vocabulary word represents the northern Middle English term, an agent derivative of mille ‘mill’, reinforced by Old Norse mylnari (see Milner). In southern, western, and central England Millward (literally, ‘mill keeper’) was the usual term.Southwestern and Swiss German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Müller (see Mueller).
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English
English : of uncertain origin. It may be an occupational nickname for a miller, from the Middle English abstract noun grist ‘grinding’, Old English grist, a derivative of grindan (see Grinder). The word was not used in the concrete sense of grain to be ground until the 15th century.
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a miller or baker, from Old French gruel ‘fine flour’, ‘meal’.Perhaps also an Americanized spelling of German Greuel.
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Variant spelling of English Milisent, MILLESANT means "strong worker."
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Americanized form of German Möller (see Moeller).German
Americanized form of German Möller (see Moeller).German : habitational name for someone from Melle.German, Jewish (Ashkenazic), and Polish : occupational name for a miller or flour merchant, from an agent derivative of German Mehl ‘flour’.English : variant of Miller.
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An American and European composite plant (Achillea Millefolium) with very finely dissected leaves and small white corymbed flowers. It has a strong, and somewhat aromatic, odor and taste, and is sometimes used in making beer, or is dried for smoking. Called also milfoil, and nosebleed.
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Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See Hydrocorallia.
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One who believes in the millennium.
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Consisting of a thousand; millennial.
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A small shark or dogfish (Galeorhinus, / Galeus, galeus), native of Europe, but found also on the coasts of California and Tasmania; -- called also toper, oil shark, miller's dog, and penny dog.
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A fossil millepore.
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A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
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Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.
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Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions.
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Alt. of Millenniarism
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The doctrine of Millenarians.
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The space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a Millenarian.
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Alt. of Millenarism
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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.
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Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere.
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A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller.
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Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.
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Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism.
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A believer in the doctrine of William Miller (d. 1849), who taught that the end of the world and the second coming of Christ were at hand.