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Milo

proper nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈmaɪloʊ//

A male given name from the Germanic languages.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from the Germanic languages.

    Stevie didn't care. At least he didn't have an oddball name like Milo and he never had to get up for church on Sunday.

    Just one thing, if I may, Mark said. It's Miles, his name. Not Milo. Yeah, I know, Anna's always going on about that too. But Milo's better, Milo's got something about it, hasn't it? the man said. It's catchier. It's catching on round the camp, Milo, where Miles sounds a bit, well, wet. A bit middle class, you know?

    Back in 2011, a 9-year-old named Milo Cress found it odd that the restaurants he would go to with his mom in Burlington, Vermont, would automatically serve drinks with a straw, whether or not their customer wanted one.

  2. 2

    An English surname originating as a patronymic transferred from the given name.

  3. 3

    A number of places around the world, including: A small village in Llanfihangel Aberbythych community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN5917).

  4. 4

    A number of places around the world, including: A village in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada.

  5. 5

    A number of places around the world, including: A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Huntington County, Indiana.

  6. 6

    A number of places around the world, including: A number of places in the United States: A minor city in Warren County, Iowa.

  7. 7

    A number of places around the world, including: A number of places in the United States: A town and census-designated place therein, in Piscataquis County, Maine.

  8. 8

    A number of places around the world, including: A number of places in the United States: A village in Vernon County, Missouri.

  9. 9

    A number of places around the world, including: A number of places in the United States: A town in Yates County, New York.

  10. 10

    A number of places around the world, including: A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Carter County, Oklahoma.

  11. 11

    A number of places around the world, including: A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Oregon.

  12. 12

    A number of places around the world, including: A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Calhoun County, West Virginia.

Etymology

A Latinate variant of Miles.

noun

  1. 1

    A drink of Milo chocolate.

Etymology

From Milo, an Australian brand of chocolate owned by Nestle.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).