TURK

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• TURK (noun)
  The noun TURK has 1 sense:

1. a native or inhabitant of Turkey

  Familiarity information: TURK used as a noun is very rare.

• TURK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Turkey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

Turki (any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language)

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

Osmanli; Ottoman; Ottoman Turk (a Turk (especially a Turk who is a member of the tribe of Osman I))

effendi (a former Turkish term of respect; especially for government officials)

Holonyms ("Turk" is a member of...):

Republic of Turkey; Turkey (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923)

 Context examples 

The Turk allowed this intimacy to take place and encouraged the hopes of the youthful lovers, while in his heart he had formed far other plans.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Woe was it that his own unworthy brother, when he had fallen, sold his people to the Turk and brought the shame of slavery on them!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“A specimen of the thanks one gets,” cried Mrs. Markleham, in tears, “for taking care of one's family! I wish I was a Turk!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I mounted into the window- seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The Turk, amazed and delighted, endeavoured to kindle the zeal of his deliverer by promises of reward and wealth.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Who was it but one of my own race who as Voivode crossed the Danube and beat the Turk on his own ground?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"Is she original? Is she piquant? I would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle- eyes, houri forms, and all!"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“It's my opinion, you see,” said Mr. Peggotty, with a delighted face, after some further rubbing of his legs, “as this is along of my havin' played with her so much, and made believe as we was Turks, and French, and sharks, and every wariety of forinners—bless you, yes; and lions and whales, and I doen't know what all!—when she warn't no higher than my knee. I've got into the way on it, you know. Why, this here candle, now!” said Mr. Peggotty, gleefully holding out his hand towards it, “I know wery well that arter she's married and gone, I shall put that candle theer, just the same as now. I know wery well that when I'm here o' nights (and where else should I live, bless your arts, whatever fortun' I come into!) and she ain't here or I ain't theer, I shall put the candle in the winder, and sit afore the fire, pretending I'm expecting of her, like I'm a doing now. THERE'S a babby for you,” said Mr. Peggotty, with another roar, “in the form of a Sea Porkypine! Why, at the present minute, when I see the candle sparkle up, I says to myself, “She's a looking at it! Em'ly's a coming!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The day for the execution of the Turk was fixed, but on the night previous to it he quitted his prison and before morning was distant many leagues from Paris.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He must, indeed, have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk, over the great river on the very frontier of Turkey-land.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)