Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Turkey
  • abbreviation Turkish
  • abbreviation Turkmenistan

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Examples

  • A short time later I was contacted by a Danish author, Kasper Nielsen, who asked if he could use the sketch to illustrate Edgar Allen Poe's investigation of a mechanical chess game called the Turk.

    WriteChic Press writechic 2009

  • A short time later I was contacted by a Danish author, Kasper Nielsen, who asked if he could use the sketch to illustrate Edgar Allen Poe's investigation of a mechanical chess game called the Turk.

    WriteChic Press 2009

  • 184 Khátún in Turk. is = a lady, a dame of high degree; at times as here and elsewhere, it becomes a P.N. 185 Arab.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • In Midtown, the Kingpin and his assassin, Lady Bullseye, are entertaining a tough called Turk.

    Review: Daredevil #501 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • “Khatun” in Turk. means any lady: mistress, etc., and follows the name, e.g. Fátimah Khatun.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Bravos as fishermen, to seize her -- boats to carry her off -- the Bosphorus wide and deep, and the hills beyond a hiding-place, and in the sky over them the awful name Turk.

    The Prince of India — Volume 01 Lewis Wallace 1866

  • The group, in their open letter published on a Web site, stated that Gönül's remarks contradict the Constitution, which says that anyone bound to the Turkish Republic by the citizenship is called a Turk.

    TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News 2008

  • Another takes them directly to the door of one of their own - namely Turk.

    PopMatters 2008

  • 109 Prob. a mis-spelling for Arslán, in Turk. a lion, and in slang a piastre.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • He pictured them as midgets, and named his patron's dog "Turk."

    In Those Days The Story of an Old Man Jehudah Steinberg

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