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# miller

noun (a miller, millers)

«miller» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A miller is a person who owns or works in a mill, grinding grain into flour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miller/#m1)
2. Miller is also a common family name. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miller/#m2)

### In the lessons

In history and stories, the miller worked at a windmill or watermill in the village; many fairy tales have a miller or a miller's daughter (Rumpelstiltskin). The family name Miller comes from this job.

### Examples

- The miller ground the wheat into flour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miller/#x1)
- In the story, the miller's daughter had to spin straw into gold. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miller/#x2)
- The miller lived next to the watermill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miller/#x3)
- Farmers took their grain to the miller. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miller/#x4)
- My teacher is called Mrs Miller. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miller/#x5)
- The old miller was covered in white flour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miller/#x6)
- ‘We don’t know,’ answered the miller. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miller/#x7)

### Note

Countable. Names that come from jobs: Miller, Baker, Smith, Taylor. Capital M for the name.

## In Jewish tradition

In history and stories, the miller worked at a windmill or watermill in the village; many fairy tales have a miller or a miller's daughter (Rumpelstiltskin). The family name Miller comes from this job.

### Examples

- Miller farther says: "The discovery of zero, as used above, implies its use in positional arithmetic. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miller/#x1)
- Miller calls attention to the recent change of view in reference to several im- portant qnestions in the history of elementary mathematics. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miller/#x2)

### Note

Countable. Names that come from jobs: Miller, Baker, Smith, Taylor. Capital M for the name.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «miller» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miller/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«miller» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/miller.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «miller» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miller/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«miller» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/miller.html) on Mova free.