SAMOYED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Samoyed mean? 

• SAMOYED (noun)
  The noun SAMOYED has 3 senses:

1. a Samoyedic-speaking person in northwestern Siberia

2. the Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed in northwestern Siberia

3. Siberian breed of white or cream-colored dog of the spitz family

  Familiarity information: SAMOYED used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAMOYED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Samoyedic-speaking person in northwestern Siberia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Samoyed" is a kind of...):

Russian (a native or inhabitant of Russia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed in northwestern Siberia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Samoyed; Samoyedic

Hypernyms ("Samoyed" is a kind of...):

Uralic; Uralic language (a family of Ural-Altaic languages)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Samoyed"):

Nenets; Nentsi; Nentsy; Yurak-Samoyed (a Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed of northern Siberia)

Enets; Entsi; Entsy; Yenisei; Yenisei-Samoyed; Yeniseian (the Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian)

Nganasan (the Uralic language spoken by the Nganasan)

Ostyak-Samoyed; Selkup (the Uralic language spoken by the Ostyak-Samoyed)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Siberian breed of white or cream-colored dog of the spitz family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Samoyed; Samoyede

Hypernyms ("Samoyed" is a kind of...):

spitz (any of various stocky heavy-coated breeds of dogs native to northern regions having pointed muzzles and erect ears with a curled furry tail)

 Context examples 

Keeshonden are compact little animals with a strong resemblance to its ancestor the Samoyed, with oblique chestnut eyes, and erect triangular ears.

(Keeshond, NCI Thesaurus)