Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Mongol people who established the Khitan Liao dynasty in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia in the 10th century.
- noun The language of this people.
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- proper noun An extinct
Mongolic language once spoken in the northern China. - proper noun Ancient nomadic people who lived in that area.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Here and there were rugs of that silk known as Khitan which is practically indestructible.
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Here and there were rugs of that silk known as Khitan which is practically indestructible.
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Here and there were rugs of that silk known as Khitan which is practically indestructible.
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Here and there were rugs of that silk known as Khitan which is practically indestructible.
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Here and there were rugs of that silk known as Khitan which is practically indestructible.
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Here and there were rugs of that silk known as Khitan which is practically indestructible.
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It was not that she had been unaware of Chin Kou, but the Khitan was a merchant's niece and surely merchants 'nieces did not think and feel in the same way as a woman born of the Kshatriya blood.
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As they advanced without opposition, Conan became sure that the Khitan was the only sentry in the cleft.
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The Khitan was a slim, dainty, foppish little man with a soft, lisping voice.
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After Genghis Khan defeated the Jin Dynasty, he told the Khitan prince, Chu'Tsai, that the prince's forefathers had been avenged.
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