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TURK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A native or inhabitant of Turkey
Classified under:
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 quickly perceived the impression that his daughter had made on the heart of Felix and endeavoured to secure him more entirely in his interests by the promise of her hand in marriage so soon as he should be conveyed to a place of safety.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
That treasure has been hidden, he went on, in the region through which you came last night, there can be but little doubt; for it was the ground fought over for centuries by the Wallachian, the Saxon, and the Turk.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Safie resolved to remain with her father until the moment of his departure, before which time the Turk renewed his promise that she should be united to his deliverer; and Felix remained with them in expectation of that event; and in the meantime he enjoyed the society of the Arabian, who exhibited towards him the simplest and tenderest affection.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Of old the Hospadars would not repair them, lest the Turk should think that they were preparing to bring in foreign troops, and so hasten the war which was always really at loading point.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He quickly arranged with the Turk that if the latter should find a favourable opportunity for escape before Felix could return to Italy, Safie should remain as a boarder at a convent at Leghorn; and then, quitting the lovely Arabian, he hastened to Paris and delivered himself up to the vengeance of the law, hoping to free De Lacey and Agatha by this proceeding.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
And when the Hungarian flood swept eastward, the Szekelys were claimed as kindred by the victorious Magyars, and to us for centuries was trusted the guarding of the frontier of Turkey-land; ay, and more than that, endless duty of the frontier guard, for, as the Turks say, 'water sleeps, and enemy is sleepless.'
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Safie related that her mother was a Christian Arab, seized and made a slave by the Turks; recommended by her beauty, she had won the heart of the father of Safie, who married her.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Is it a wonder that we were a conquering race; that we were proud; that when the Magyar, the Lombard, the Avar, the Bulgar, or the Turk poured his thousands on our frontiers, we drove them back?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He is so; but then he is wholly uneducated: he is as silent as a Turk, and a kind of ignorant carelessness attends him, which, while it renders his conduct the more astonishing, detracts from the interest and sympathy which otherwise he would command.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
A few days after, the Turk entered his daughter’s apartment and told her hastily that he had reason to believe that his residence at Leghorn had been divulged and that he should speedily be delivered up to the French government; he had consequently hired a vessel to convey him to Constantinople, for which city he should sail in a few hours.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
