Mill Definition

mĭl
milled, milling, mills
noun
mills
A building or group of buildings with machinery for manufacturing or processing something; factory.
A textile mill.
Webster's New World
A raised edge, ridged surface, etc. made by milling.
Webster's New World
A difficult or laborious series of experiences.
Went through the mill trying to get approval to build an addition onto the house.
American Heritage
A machine for grinding or pulverizing any solid material.
A countertop coffee mill.
Webster's New World
A building with machinery for grinding grain into flour or meal.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
milled, milling
To grind, pulverize, or break down into smaller particles in a mill.
Mill grain.
American Heritage
To grind, work, process, form, polish, etc. by, in, or as in a mill.
Webster's New World
To move slowly in a circle, as cattle, or aimlessly, as a confused crowd.
Webster's New World
To cut, shape, or finish in a mill or with a milling tool.
Logs that are milled for lumber.
American Heritage
To beat or whip (chocolate, etc.) to a froth.
Webster's New World
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pronoun

A surname.

Wiktionary
John Stuart Mill.
Wiktionary
idiom
in the mill
  • in preparation
Webster's New World
through the mill
  • through a hard, painful, instructive experience, training, test, etc.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Mill

Noun

Singular:
mill
Plural:
mills

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Mill

Origin of Mill

  • Middle English milne, mille from Old English mylen from Late Latin molīna, molīnum from feminine and neuter of molīnus of a mill from Latin mola millstone from molere to grind melə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Short for Latin mīllēsimus thousandth mil1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English mille, Old English mylen.

    From Wiktionary

  • Ultimately from Latin millesimum.

    From Wiktionary

  • From the noun mill

    From Wiktionary

Mill Sentence Examples

  • But again of course Mill is not named.

  • It was a picture of a mill, near a beautiful brook.

  • She stared at him, but his attention was on the mill again.

  • They spent the next fifteen minutes exploring the inside of the mill, and then they went out to the bridge.

  • Not far from the mill there was an old house, with many trees growing close to it.

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Words Starting With

MMIMIL

Words Ending With

LLLILL

Unscrambles

mill

Words Starting With M and Ending With L

Starts With M & Ends With LStarts With MI & Ends With LStarts With M & Ends With LL

Word Length

4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With M4 Letter Words Ending With L