TURK
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Example

She married a Turk from Izmir last summer.

Definition

A citizen or national of Turkey.

  • A person of Turkish ethnic descent.

A member of any Turkic people.

  • A speaker of a Turkic language.

Relating to Turkey or Turkish people; Turkish.

  • Attributive, informal.

Relating to the Turkic languages or peoples; Turkic.

Archaic, often offensive: a Muslim person.

Historical: a Christian horse-archer serving the Crusaders (Turcopole).

Colloquial, UK: a person from Llanelli, Wales.

US regional: a member of a Mestee community in South Carolina.

Zoology, US: the plum curculio weevil (Conotrachelus nenuphar).

A horse of a Turkish breed.