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TURKISH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Turkic language spoken by the Turks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Turkish" is a kind of...):
Turki; Turkic; Turkic language; Turko-Tatar (a subfamily of Altaic languages)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characteristic of Turkey or its people or language
Example:
Turkish towels
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Turkey (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923)
Context examples:
The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A Turkish bath is what we call an alterative in medicine—a fresh starting-point, a cleanser of the system.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The only thing I found was a great heap of gold in one corner—gold of all kinds, Roman, and British, and Austrian, and Hungarian, and Greek and Turkish money, covered with a film of dust, as though it had lain long in the ground.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“The bath!” he said; “the bath! Why the relaxing and expensive Turkish rather than the invigorating home-made article?”
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“By the way, Holmes,” I added, “I have no doubt the connection between my boots and a Turkish bath is a perfectly self-evident one to a logical mind, and yet I should be obliged to you if you would indicate it.”
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
