Milk Mɪlk Glass White Noun Pint/Litre Bottle/Carton Drank

• a pint/litre of milk
• a bottle/carton of milk
• she drank a glass of cool frothy milk.
• fresh/dried/powdered milk

milk

1. the white liquid produced by cows, goats and some other animals as food for their young and used as a drink by humans
• SEE ALSO buttermilk
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/buttermilk
• a pint/litre of milk
• a bottle/carton of milk
• She drank a glass of cool frothy milk.
• fresh/dried/powdered milk
• Do you take milk in your tea?
• milk products (= butter, cheese, etc.)
• milk production/prices
• I am allergic to cow's milk.
• full-fat/semi-skimmed/skimmed milk (= milk with none/some/most of the fat removed)
• Shall I get skim milk or 2%?

Extra Examples

• Don't drink the milk—it's off.
• Dried milk keeps better than fluid milk.
• The milk has gone off/turned sour.
• They've stopped delivering milk in our area.
• a calcium-fortified milk which provides more calcium than regular milk
• Dairy cows produce more milk when listening to music.
• Why is there no milk in the fridge?
2. the white liquid that is produced by women and female mammals for feeding their babies
• SEE ALSO mother’s milk
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/mother-s-milk
• breast milk
• Mammals rely on mother's milk for nutrition and immune protection.
• She expressed some milk so her husband could do the night feeding.
3. the white juice of some plants and trees
• SEE ALSO soya milk
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/soya-milk
• The recipe uses fresh coconut milk and lime juice.
• Serve with a glass of sweet, creamy almond milk.
4. to waste time worrying about something that has happened that you cannot do anything about
• As the saying goes—it's no use crying over spilt milk.
5. a place where life is pleasant and easy and people are very happy
• He dreamed of emigrating to Canada—the land of milk and honey.
6. kind behaviour, considered to be natural to humans

Word Origin

• Old English milc, milcian, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch melk and German Milch, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mulgere and Greek amelgein ‘to milk’.