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English noun: turkey | |||
| 1. | turkey (animal) large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food | ||
| Synonyms | Meleagris gallopavo | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | domestic fowl, fowl, poultry | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | gobbler, tom, tom turkey, turkey cock | ||
| Member meronym | genus Meleagris, Meleagris | ||
| 2. | Turkey (location) 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 | ||
| Synonyms | Republic of Turkey | ||
| Instance hypernym | country, land, state | ||
| Part holonym | Abydos, Adalia, Adana, Adrianople, Adrianopolis, Aegospotami, Aegospotamos, Angora, Ankara, Antakiya, Antakya, Antalya, Antioch, Ararat, Aras, Araxes, Bosporus, Brusa, Bursa, Canakkale Bogazi, capital of Turkey, Constantinople, Dardanelles, Edirne, Euphrates, Euphrates River, Halicarnassus, Hellespont, Istanbul, Izmir, Kurdistan, Mount Ararat, Mt. Ararat, Pergamum, Sardis, Seyhan, Seyhan, Seyhan River, Smyrna, Stamboul, Stambul, Tigris, Tigris River, Turkish capital | ||
| Part meronym | Anatolia, Asia Minor, Balkan Peninsula, Balkans, Middle East, Mideast, Near East | ||
| Member holonym | Turk | ||
| Member meronym | NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization | ||
| Domain region members | Aga, Agha, bulghur, bulgur, bulgur wheat, Dardanelles, Dardanelles campaign, IBDA-C, Islamic Great Eastern Raiders-Front, Jerusalem Warriors, Kurdistan Labor Pary, Kurdistan Workers Party, Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan, PPK, Revolutionary People's Liberation Front, Revolutionary People's Liberation Party, Turkish Hizballah | ||
| 3. | turkey (person) a person who does something thoughtless or annoying | ||
| Samples | Some joker is blocking the driveway. | ||
| Synonyms | joker | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | disagreeable person, unpleasant person | ||
| 4. | turkey (food) flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | poultry | ||
| Part holonym | breast, turkey wing, white meat | ||
| 5. | turkey (event) an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual | ||
| Samples | The first experiment was a real turkey. The meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned. | ||
| Synonyms | bomb, dud | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bust, fizzle, flop | ||
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