Definition of Turkish

1. Noun. A Turkic language spoken by the Turks.


2. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Turkey or its people or language. "Turkish towels"
Partainyms: Turkey

Definition of Turkish

1. a. Of or pertaining to Turkey or the Turks.

Definition of Turkish

1. Proper noun. The official language of Turkey and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. ¹

2. Adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to Turkey, the Turkish people or the Turkish language. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Turkish

Turk's-cap
Turk's cap-lily
Turk's head
Turk's leukocyte
Turk cell
Turkana
Turkeis
Turkestan
Turkey
Turkey Day
Turkey red
Turki
Turkic
Turkic-speaking
Turkic language
Turkish (current term)
Turkish Angora
Turkish Delight
Turkish Empire
Turkish Hizballah
Turkish Republic
Turkish Sign Language
Turkish Van
Turkish Vankedisi
Turkish alphabet
Turkish bath
Turkish baths
Turkish boxwood
Turkish bread
Turkish capital

Literary usage of Turkish

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

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"In the note the Turkish government declared that it "accepts as a basis for the negotiations the program laid down by the President of the United States in ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"16981 Cast Not Pearls Before Swine (Turkish, Sixteenth Century) ... 16983 The Thanksgiving of the Pharisee (Turkish, Fifteenth Century) - - By the ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"A Turkish Bath might be a very capital thing for some people, ... However, Smith- ers talked me over, and away we went to the City Turkish Baths, ..."

4. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"The evils which had undermined the empire of Rome seemed to be reproduced in the dominions of the Sultan. For nearly eighty years the Turkish power ceased ..."

5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"The evils which had undermined the empire of Rome seemed to be reproduced in the dominions of the Sultan. For nearly eighty years the Turkish power ceased ..."

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