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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bearing, comportment, presence, miennoun

    dignified manner or conduct

Wiktionary

  1. miennoun

    Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.

  2. miennoun

    A specific facial expression

  3. Miennoun

    A group of related languages spoken by the Yao people.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Miennoun

    Air; look; manner.

    Etymology: mine, French.

    In her alone that owns this book is seen
    Clorinda’s spirit, and her lofty mien. Edmund Waller.

    What can have more the figure and mien of a ruin than craggs, rocks, and cliffs. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

    One, in whom an outward mien appear’d,
    And turn superior to the vulgar herd. Matthew Prior.

    What winning graces, what majestick mien,
    She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen. Alexander Pope.

Wikipedia

  1. mien

    The Yao people (its majority branch is also known as Mien; simplified Chinese: 瑶族; traditional Chinese: 瑤族; pinyin: Yáozú; Vietnamese: người Dao) is a government classification for various minorities in China and Vietnam. They are one of the 55 officially recognised ethnic minorities in China and reside in the mountainous terrain of the southwest and south. They also form one of the 54 ethnic groups officially recognised by Vietnam. In China in the last census in 2000, they numbered 2,637,421 and in Vietnam census in 2019, they numbered 891,151.

ChatGPT

  1. mien

    Mien refers to a person's appearance, manner, or demeanor that reveals their character or mood. It's often used to describe a particular way of carrying oneself that suggests certain attitudes or emotions.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Miennoun

    aspect; air; manner; demeanor; carriage; bearing

  2. Etymology: [F. mine; perh. from sane source as mener to lead; cf. E. demean, menace, mine, n.]

Wikidata

  1. Mień

    Mień is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Brańsk, within Bielsk County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 10 kilometres west of Brańsk, 34 km west of Bielsk Podlaski, and 50 km south-west of the regional capital Białystok. The village has a population of 610.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Mien

    mēn, n. the look or appearance of a person: the expression of the face: manner: bearing. [Fr. mine—It. mina, deportment—Low L. mināre, to conduct—L. mināri, to threaten.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mien in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mien in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of mien in a Sentence

  1. Finley Peter Dunne:

    Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

  2. Edward Dahlberg:

    Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

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