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Definition: Milliner |
MillinerNoun1. A merchant who designs and sells hats. 2. Someone who makes and sells hats. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "milliner" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
Etymology: Milliner \Mil"li*ner\, noun. [From Milaner an inhabitant of Milan, in Italy; hence, man from Milan who imported women's finery.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Milliner A corruption of Milaner; so called from Milan, in Italy, which at one time gave the law to Europe in all matters of taste, dress, and elegance. Milliner was originally applied to the male sex; hence Ben Jonson, in Every Man in his Humour, i. 3, speaks of a "milliner's wife." The French have still une modiste and un modiste. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Occupations | Fabricates hats for individual customer or for store's stock: Cuts pattern from material to desired size and shape, using original design or adapting or copying existing model. Lays pattern on material and cuts material, following pattern. Molds, drapes, and blocks material, using hat forms and steam iron. Sews lining and other sections of hat together and trims with materials, such as ribbon, veil, feathers, and flowers, using needle and thread or sewing machine. Reproduces hats in various colors and materials. Alters stock hats to customer's wishes by changing ornaments and veiling. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A milliner is a person who designs, makes, or sells women's hats.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Milliner."
Synonyms: MillinerSynonyms: hatmaker (n), hatter (n), modiste (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Clothier, tailor, milliner, costumier, sempstress, snip; dressmaker, habitmaker, breechesmaker, shoemaker; Crispin; friseur; cordwainer, cobbler, hosier, hatter; draper, linen draper, haberdasher, mercer. |
Fop | Noun: fop, fine gentleman; swell; dandy, dandiprat; exquisite, coxcomb, beau, macaroni, blade, blood, buck, man about town, fast man; fribble, milliner; Jemmy Jessamy, carpet knight; masher, dude. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Milliner |
| English words defined with "milliner": millinery, Miscellany madam ♦ woman's hat. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "milliner": Crowdero ♦ Horse-milliner ♦ Mantalini. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The French Milliner (1916) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Milliner and her daughter. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Milliner" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Milliner" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "milliner" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Milliner | Last name | 1,000 | 10,594 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "milliner": Man milliner. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
milliner | 27 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "milliner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kapelashitës (hatter), kapelabërës (hatter). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шапкарка (modiste). (various references) | |
Chinese | 制帽者. (various references) | |
Czech | modistka, klobouènice. (various references) | |
Danish | modist. (various references) | |
Dutch | modiste, modemaakster. (various references) | |
Esperanto | modistino. (various references) | |
Finnish | modisti. (various references) | |
French | modiste. (various references) | |
German | Modistin (modiste), putzmacherin, Hutmacherin (hatter). (various references) | |
Greek | καπελού, κατασκευαστής γυναικείων καπέλων. (various references) | |
Hebrew | כובען (hatmaker, hatter). (various references) | |
Hungarian | női (female, knockers, womanly, woman's, women's), kalaposnõ, kalaposnő, kalapos (hatted, hatter), divatszalonos, divatárukereskedő. (various references) | |
Italian | modista. (various references) | |
Korean | 여성모 조인. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illinermay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | modista (fashion designer, modiste), modista de chapéus. (various references) | |
Romanian | modistã (modiste), pedant (academic, academical, bookish, captious, censorious, dryasdust, far fetched, inkhorn, opinioned, pedant, pedantic, pernickety, precise, precisian, prig, priggish, priggishly, prissy, prolix, punctilious, scholastic), chiţibuşar (cavilling, pettifogging). (various references) | |
Russian | модистка (modiste). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | modiskinja (modiste). (various references) | |
Spanish | modista (dressmaker, modiste, seamstress), sombrerera (bandbox, hatbox). (various references) | |
Swedish | modist (modiste). (various references) | |
Turkish | kadın şapkacısı, şapkacı (hatter). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | капелюшниця, модистка (modiste). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "milliner": millineries, milliners, millinery. (additional references) | |
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"Milliner" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gillener, maillefer, Mallinder, Melinex, Mellinger, miliner, Miliyel, Milkline, millime, millin, millinea, millini, millione, milliter, millner, Miolnir, Molinier, Mullaney, Mullinger, Mullner. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "milliner" (pronounced mi"luner) |
| 3 | -u n er | bargainer, Commissioner, commoner, conditioner, confectioner, coroner, examiner, executioner, Falconer, fastener, foreigner, freshener, gardener, hardener, laminar, listener, mariner, oftener, opener, parishioner, pensioner, petitioner, practitioner, prisoner, probationer, questioner, reasoner, softener, stationer, stiffener, sweetener, thickener, vacationer, Waggoner, Wagoner. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-l-m-n-r" | |
-1 letter: millier, milline. | |
-2 letters: inlier, limier, limner, linier, merlin, miller, nielli. | |
-3 letters: iller, imine, limen, liner, miler, mille, miner, rille. | |
-4 letters: emir, lien, lier, lime, limn, line, lire, liri, mell, merl, mien, mile, mill, mine, mini, mire, miri, nill, rein, riel, rile, rill, rime. | |
-5 letters: ell, elm, ern, ill, ire, lei, lie, lin, mel, men, mil. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-l-l-m-n-r" | |
+1 letter: milliners, millinery. | |
+2 letters: millihenry, vermillion. | |
+3 letters: bimillenary, imperilling, matrilineal, millenarian, millenaries, millihenrys, millineries, millionaire, vermillions. | |
+4 letters: meridionally, millenarians, millihenries, millionaires, misenrolling. | |
+5 letters: bimillenaries, interfamilial, intermetallic, matrilineally, millionairess, milliroentgen, mineralizable, mineralogical, ministerially, multiregional, multiterminal, neoliberalism, preliminarily, premillennial. | |
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