Milk meaning

What does “milk” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“milk” is a noun and verb with 7 meanings. Its most common meaning is: a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings.

milk

noun

  1. a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings

  2. produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young

  3. a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River

    SynonymsMilk River
  4. any of several nutritive milklike liquids

verb

  1. take milk from female mammals

    “Cows need to be milked every morning”

  2. exploit as much as possible

    “I am milking this for all it's worth”

  3. add milk to

    “milk the tea”

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University

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