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SAMOYED

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Samoyed; Samoyede

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed in northwestern Siberia

Synonyms:

Samoyed; Samoyedic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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:

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)

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