MILLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Miller mean? 

• MILLER (noun)
  The noun MILLER has 6 senses:

1. United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)

2. United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980)

3. United States playwright (1915-2005)

4. someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill)

5. machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it

6. any of various moths that have powdery wings

  Familiarity information: MILLER used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Alton Glenn Miller; Glenn Miller; Miller

Instance hypernyms:

bandleader (the leader of a dance band)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Henry Miller; Henry Valentine Miller; Miller

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States playwright (1915-2005)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Arthur Miller; Miller

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("miller" is a kind of...):

artificer; artisan; craftsman; journeyman (a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

miller; milling machine

Hypernyms ("miller" is a kind of...):

shaper; shaping machine (a machine tool for shaping metal or wood)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Any of various moths that have powdery wings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

miller; moth miller

Hypernyms ("miller" is a kind of...):

moth (typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae)

 Context examples 

After this the miller saw the skin in which the raven was, lying on the ground, and asked: “What have you there?”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"Yes'm, that's me," he answered modestly. "My name's Miller, Skiff Miller. I just thought I'd s'prise her."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This he had never experienced at Judge Miller’s down in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“I am sure,” said she, “I cried for two days together when Colonel Miller's regiment went away. I thought I should have broken my heart.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Miss Miller again gave the word of command—Monitors, fetch the supper-trays!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Peering 90% of the way across the observable Universe, the Miller team observed a galaxy protocluster named SPT2349-56.

(Ancient Galaxy Megamergers, ESO)

“Why, my lord,” quoth Ford, standing in his stirrups and shading his eyes, “it is old Hob Davidson, the fat miller of Milton!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was seen by some farmer, and he told the miller, and the miller told the butcher, and the butcher's son-in-law left word at the shop.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In the lab, Miller and her colleagues analyzed samples from bowhead whales' gastrointestinal tracts, hoping to detect changes in microbial communities and lipids throughout the gut of each whale.

(Whales may owe their efficient digestion to millions of tiny microbes, National Science Foundation)

Lucy and I had both a fight for it with the dusty miller; I know it was a hard fight on my part, and I am quite heroic.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)