Milk Mɪlk White Noun Bre Pint/Litre Bottle/Carton Fresh/Dried/Powdered

• a pint/litre of milk
• a bottle/carton of milk
• fresh/dried/powdered milk
• do you take milk in your tea?

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
• fresh/dried/powdered milk
• Do you take milk in your tea?
• milk products (= butter, cheese, etc.)
2. the white liquid that is produced by women and female mammals for feeding their babies
• breast milk
3. the white juice of some plants and trees, especially the coconut
• see also soya milk
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/soya-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
• See related entries: Kind
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/kind/milk_1

Extra Examples

• Don’t drink the milk—it’s off.
• Dried milk keeps better than fluid milk.
• She expressed some milk so her husband could do the night feeding.
• 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
• a can of condensed milk

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’.