- the white liquid produced by cows, goats and some other animals as food for their young and used as a drink by humans
- 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.
- (British English) full-fat/semi-skimmed/skimmed milk (= milk with none/some/most of the fat removed)
- (North American English) Shall I get skim milk or 2%?
Extra ExamplesTopics Drinksa1- 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?
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- fresh
- curdled
- sour
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- litre/liter
- pint
- bottle
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- drink
- have
- take
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- be off
- go bad
- go off
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- powder
- beverage
- drink
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- the white liquid that is produced by women and female mammals for feeding their babies
- 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.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- fresh
- curdled
- sour
- …
- litre/liter
- pint
- bottle
- …
- drink
- have
- take
- …
- be off
- go bad
- go off
- …
- powder
- beverage
- drink
- …
- (in compounds) a white liquid produced by or made from plants see also almond milk, coconut milk, oat milk, soya milkOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- fresh
- curdled
- sour
- …
- litre/liter
- pint
- bottle
- …
- drink
- have
- take
- …
- be off
- go bad
- go off
- …
- powder
- beverage
- drink
- …
Word OriginOld 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’.
Idioms
See milk in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee milk in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishcry over spilt milk (British English)
(US English cry over spilled milk)
- 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.
the land of milk and honey
- 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.
the milk of human kindness
- (literary) kind behaviour, considered to be natural to humans
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