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millieme

[meel-yem, mee-yem]

mil·lieme

[meel-yem, mee-yem]
noun
1.
a cupronickel coin of Egypt and Sudan, the 1000th part of a pound or the 10th part of a piaster.
2.
a former coin and monetary unit of Libya, the 1000th part of a pound: replaced by the dirham.

Origin:
1900–05; < French millièmeLatin millēsimus thousandth, equivalent to mille thousand + -ēsimus ordinal suffix
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Millieme is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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millieme (miːlˈjɛm)
 
n
Also called: millime a Tunisian monetary unit worth one thousandth of a dinar
 
[from French millième thousandth]

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