Definition of Evenk

1. Noun. A member of the Tungus speaking people of Mongolian race who are a nomadic people widely spread over eastern Siberia; related to the Manchu.

Exact synonyms: Tungus
Generic synonyms: Tungusic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Evenk

Evariste Galois
Eve
Eve's pudding
Eve baiting
Eve teasings
Evel Knievel
Eveleen
Evelike
Eveline
Evelyn
Evelyn Arthur Saint John Waugh
Evelyn Waugh
Even
Evening Prayer
Evenk
Evenki
Evens
Everard
Everest
Everett
Everglade State
Everglades
Everglades National Park
Evergreen State
Evernia
Evers
Everton
Evertonian
Eves

Literary usage of Evenk

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1852)
"... which was often interrupted and often renewed by single combats and flying skirmishes, might be protracted without any decisive evenk to the continuance ..."

2. The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Ed. Under the Authority of the by Ezra Stiles (1901)
"This evenk' I began to read the Book of Customs' in the Chapel. Present 103 Undergraduates. 30. The Seniors disputed forensically on the Question whether ..."

3. The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile, Bart., First Marquis of Halifax &c by Helen Charlotte Foxcroft (1898)
"... but evenk the ostentation, of Popery is as well or better performed in the chapels of so many foreign ministers (where the English openly resort, ..."

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