millier

[ meel-yey ]

noun

1. 1000 kilograms; a metric ton.

Word History and Origins

Origin of millier¹

< French < Latin milliārius. See milli-, -ier ²

Example Sentences

Marshall heard the gossip during her Harvard years; Millier’s biography, published in 1993, makes the outlines of the relationship clear.

From The New Yorker

Bishop’s previous biographer, Brett C. Millier, more convincingly links these lines to thoughts that Bishop confided to her notebook a few months earlier, while suffering over Margaret Miller: “Name it friendship if you want to—like names of cities printed on maps, the word is much too big, it spreads all over the place, and tells nothing of the actual place it means to name.”

From The New Yorker

The last major biography of her, Brett Millier’s “Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It,” appeared in 1992.

From New York Times

“I remember the wedding because I really loved it,” Trisha Millier, the photographer hired by Ms. Strevell-Childrose, said.

From New York Times

“I have certainly done more extravagant weddings,” Ms. Millier said.

From New York Times