turkey

Noun
  1. Large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail;
    Widely domesticated for food (synset 101796799)
    is a type of: domestic fowl, fowl, poultry - a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
    subtypes: gobbler, tom, tom turkey, turkey cock - male turkey
    belongs to: genus meleagris, meleagris - type genus of the Meleagrididae: wild and domestic turkeys
    same as: meleagris gallopavo
  2. 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 (synset 109061886)
    domain member region:
    is an instance of: country, land, state - the territory occupied by a nation
    member holonym: turk - a native or inhabitant of Turkey
    belongs to: nato, north atlantic treaty organization - an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security
    has:
    • adrianople, adrianopolis, edirne - a city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian
    • kurdistan - an extensive geographical region in the Middle East to the south of the Caucasus
    • abydos - an ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles; scene of the legend of Hero and Leander
    • adana, seyhan - a city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River
    • angora, ankara, capital of turkey, turkish capital - the capital of Turkey; located in west-central Turkey; it was formerly known as Angora and is the home of Angora goats
    • adalia, antalya - a port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya
    • antakiya, antakya, antioch - a town in southern Turkey; ancient commercial center and capital of Syria; an early center of Christianity
    • canakkale bogazi, dardanelles, hellespont - the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey
    • halicarnassus - an ancient Greek city on the southwestern coast of Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; site of the mausoleum at Halicarnassus
    • constantinople, istanbul, stamboul, stambul - the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church
    • brusa, bursa - a city in northwestern Turkey
    • izmir, smyrna - a port city in western Turkey
    • pergamum - an ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey; the technique of preparing sheepskins as parchment was developed here
    • sardis - an ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey; as the capital of Lydia it was the cultural center of Asia Minor; destroyed by Tamerlane in 1402
    • aegospotami, aegospotamos - a creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War
    • ararat, mount ararat, mt. ararat - the mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded
    • aras, araxes - a river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea; ancient name was Araxes
    • bosporus - a strait connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea; separates the European and Asian parts of Turkey; an important shipping route
    • euphrates, euphrates river - a river in southwestern Asia; flows into the Persian Gulf; was important in the development of several great civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia
    • seyhan, seyhan river - a Turkish river flowing south southwest into the Mediterranean
    • tigris, tigris river - an Asian river; a tributary of the Euphrates River
    is a part of:
    • anatolia, asia minor - a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey
    • balkan peninsula, balkans - a large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range
    • middle east, mideast, near east - the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century
    same as: republic of turkey
  3. A person who does something thoughtless or annoying (synset 110243965)
    "some joker is blocking the driveway"
    is a type of: disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
    same as: joker
  4. Flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted (synset 107663340)
    is a type of: poultry - flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food
    has:
  5. An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual (synset 107379793)
    "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"
    is a type of: bust, fizzle, flop - a complete failure
    same as: bomb, dud

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