Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southwest Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya, an inlet of the Mediterranean Sea. The city is situated on a steep cliff and surrounded by an old wall.
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- proper noun A city in
Turkey
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- noun a port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya
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Examples
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We told you just a moment ago that a Turkish airliner had been hijacked on its way from Antalya, which is on the Mediterranean Coast to the southern part of Turkey.
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While meeting with the journalists, Ajar declined to comment on Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's recent remarks on Israel and instead reaffirmed Ataturk's peaceful legacy and talked about the safety in Antalya, which is the Israeli tourist's favorite travel destination in Turkey.
Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?) vinnews 2010
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While meeting with the journalists, Ajar declined to comment on Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's recent remarks on Israel and instead reaffirmed Ataturk's peaceful legacy and talked about the safety in Antalya, which is the Israeli tourist's favorite travel destination in Turkey.
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Turkish products are available from Tbilisi to Tehran, Damascus to Yerevan; the word "Antalya" evokes dreams of a Mediterranean luxury holiday; in the Kurdish towns of Sulaimaniya and Arbil, most buildings and (significantly) the government compounds are built by Turkish companies.
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Turkish products are available from Tbilisi to Tehran, Damascus to Yerevan; the word "Antalya" evokes dreams of a Mediterranean luxury holiday; in the Kurdish towns of Sulaimaniya and Arbil, most buildings and (significantly) the government compounds are built by Turkish companies.
openDemocracy 2009
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"We had crops planted in agricultural fields in cities such as Antalya, İzmir and Bursa.
Hurriyet Dailynews HDN 2010
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"We had crops planted in agricultural fields in cities such as Antalya, İzmir and Bursa.
Hurriyet Dailynews 2010
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In discussing this topic on the bus from Nicosia to Kyrenia en route to the conference dinner, Nick Jaworski pointed out, that if transfer were the explanation, why is it that his Turkish students willfully produce errors like * I went Antalya, when the analogous verb + prepositional phrase exists in Turkish (even if the preposition is attached as a suffix)?
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In discussing this topic on the bus from Nicosia to Kyrenia en route to the conference dinner, Nick Jaworski pointed out, that if transfer were the explanation, why is it that his Turkish students willfully produce errors like * I went Antalya, when the analogous verb + prepositional phrase exists in Turkish (even if the preposition is attached as a suffix)?
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In Antalya, activists said a handful of pro-regime supporters flown in from Syria harassed people as they arrived at the airport.
Syrian Opposition Meets in Turkey Nour Malas 2011
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