Turkey
Definitions
- A country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in West Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara.
- The guinea fowl (family Numididae).
- Synonym of Turkey red (“a vibrant red dye or its color”).
- A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck.
- A wild turkey of Meleagris gallopavo.
- Synonym of Ottoman Empire, a former empire in Europe, Asia, Africa. Capital: Istanbul.
- Synonym of Turkey blue (“a deep indigo dye or its color”).
- A domesticated bird of Meleagris gallopavo domesticus.
- The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
- With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the brush turkey or bush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)).
- An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
- A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.
- A pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle; also, a large travel bag, a suitcase.
- A failure.
- A foolish or inept person.
- A prostitute.
Equivalents
Españolturquía
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AfrikaansTurkye
አማርኛቱርክ
Azərbaycan diliTürkiyə
БългарскиТурция
বাংলাতুরস্ক
བོད་སྐད།ཏུར་ཀི
BosanskiaršinarsuzbučačelebićuretinadinargorelehindiIlićkapaklapakrutalicemačkapuretinaputesiletukaTurskažaražileтукаТурскаћуретина
CatalàTurquia
CymraegTwrci
DanskTyrkiet
EestiTürgi
EuskaraTurkia
Gàidhligeun-Frangach
ગુજરાતીતુર્કસ્તાન
ʻŌlelo HawaiʻiKuleke
HrvatskiaršinarsuzbučačelebićuretinadinargorelehindiIlićkapaklapakrutalicemačkapuretinaputesiletukaTurskažaražileтукаТурскаћуретина
MagyarTörökország
ՀայերենԹուրքիա
ÍslenskaTyrkland
ItalianoTurchia
ქართულითურქეთი
Қазақ тіліТүркия
ភាសាខ្មែរតួកគី
ಕನ್ನಡತುರುಕ
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LatviešuTurcija
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МонголТурк
Bahasa MelayuTurki
မြန်မာတူရကီ
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PortuguêsTurquia
RomânăTurcia
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සිංහලතුර්කිය
SlovenčinaTurecko
SlovenščinaTurčija
СрпскиaršinarsuzbučačelebićuretinadinargorelehindiIlićkapaklapakrutalicemačkapuretinaputesiletukaTurskažaražileтукаТурскаћуретина
KiswahiliUturuki
தமிழ்துருக்கி
తెలుగుటర్కీ
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TürkmençeTürkiýe
TagalogTurkiya
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ئۇيغۇرچەتۈركىيە
O'zbekchaTurkiya
WolofTirki
YorùbáTọki
Examples
“It was a Turkey! He never could have⟳ stood upon his legs, that bird. He would have⟳ snapped 'em short off in a minute, like⟳ sticks of sealing-wax.”
“All week after Thanksgiving, I had turkey sandwiches for lunch.”
“Mumford (1970) noted that the terms ‘crock’, ‘gomer’, and ‘turkey’, were sometimes utilized by interns to designate different types of undesirable patients, and sometimes used synonymously.”
“That film was a turkey.”
“And despite the gross incompetence of Hemmings' direction, the ludicrous script, and the heavy-handed acting, there remains a stellar reason⟳ to see⟳ and enjoy⟳ Just a Gigolo: David Bowie. David Bowie is a great actor, and not even this turkey can obscure that fact.”
“There were a few turkeys. In the rush⟳ to present⟳ a futuristic vision, the railways' heritage was largely forgotten and we ended up with new stations at Euston and at Coventry, its brash sidekick which I particularly loathe, although (of course) it won design⟳ awards.”
“The turkey cut⟳ in front of me and then berated me for running into him.”
“Shorty think⟳ she slick, but everybody know⟳ she a turkey.”
“One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.”
“This isn’t the first time she has hidden a weight-loss management attempt⟳ from her husband. “I went to Turkey and had a gastric balloon, and I didn’t tell⟳ anyone, not even him,” she says.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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