Definitions of turkey [ˈtɜr ki]

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Definition of 'turkey'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) turkey
either of two large North American gallinaceous birds of the pheasant family, esp. Meleagris gallopavo, with brownish, iridescent plumage and a bare head and neck: domestic forms now kept in many parts of the world.

2.  turkey
the flesh of this bird, used as food.

3.  turkey
Slang.

4.  turkey
a person or thing of little appeal; dud; loser.

5.  turkey
a naive, stupid, or inept person.

6.  turkey
a poor and unsuccessful theatrical production; flop.

7.  turkey
a score of three successive strikes in bowling.

8.  turkey
talk turkey,

9. (n.) Turkey
a republic in W Asia and SE Europe. 65,599,206; 300,948 sq. mi. (779,455 sq. km).

Definition of 'turkey'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) turkey, Meleagris gallopavo
large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food

2. (noun) Turkey, Republic of 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

3. (noun) joker, turkey
a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
"some joker is blocking the driveway"

4. (noun) turkey
flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted

5. (noun) turkey, bomb, dud
an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
"the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"

Definition of 'turkey'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) turkey
a large bird that is kept for its meat, or the meat itself
At Thanksgiving most people have turkey.

Definition of 'turkey'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) turkey
an empire in the southeast of Europe and southwest of Asia

2. (noun) turkey
any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus Meleagris, especially the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), and the domestic turkey, which was probably derived from the Mexican wild turkey, but had been domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of America

Definitions of 'turkey'

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. turkey
or the Ottoman Empire, a great Mohammedan State embracing wide areas in Eastern Europe and Western Asia, besides the province of Tripoli in North Africa, and the tributary States Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (under Austria), Cyprus (under Britain), Samos and Egypt (practically controlled by Britain). European Turkey (4,786), which during the last 200 years has been gradually losing territory, now comprises a narrow strip of land between the Adriatic (W.) and the Black Sea (E.), about twice the size of England; is traversed by the Dinaric Alps and Pindus Mountains, which strike southwards into Greece, while offshoots from the Balkans (q. v.) diversify the E.; climate is very variable, and is marked by high winds and extremes of cold and heat; the soil is remarkably fertile and well adapted for the cultivation of cereals, but agricultural enterprise is hampered by excessive taxation; there is abundance of the useful metals; is the only non-Christian State in Europe. Asiatic Turkey (16,000) is bounded N. by the Black Sea, S. by the Arabian Desert and the Mediterranean, E. by Persia and Transcaucasia, and W. by the Archipelago; has an area more than ten times that of Turkey in Europe, is still more mountainous, being traversed by the Taurus, Anti-Taurus, and the Lebanon ranges; is ill watered, and even the valleys of the Euphrates, Tigris, and Jordan are subject to great drought in the summer; embraces Asia Minor (q. v.), Syria (q. v.), Palestine (q. v.), and the coast strips of Arabia along the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; chief exports are fruits, silk, cotton, wool, opium, &c. The population of the Ottoman Empire is of a most heterogeneous character, embracing Turks, Greeks, Slavs, Albanians, Armenians, Syrians, Arabs, Tartars, &c. The government is a pure despotism, and the Sultan is regarded as the Caliph or head of Islam; military service is compulsory, and the army on a war footing numbers not less than 750,000, but the navy is small; since 1847 there has been considerable improvement in education; the finances have long been mismanaged, and an annual deficit of two millions sterling is now a usual feature of the national budget; the foreign debt is upwards of 160 millions. From the 17th century onwards the once wide empire of the Turks has been gradually dwindling away. The Turks are essentially a warlike race, and commerce and art have not flourished with them. Their literature is generally lacking in virility, and is mostly imitative and devoid of national character.

Translation of 'turkey'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a kind of large farmyard bird.
Afrikaans: kalkoen	Arabic: ديك رومي	Bulgarian: пуйка
Brazilian: peru	Czech: krocan, krůta	German: der Truthahn
Danish: kalkun	Greek: γαλοπούλα	Spanish: pavo
Estonian: kalkun	Farsi: بوقلمون	Finnish: kalkkuna
French: dindon, dinde	Hebrew: תַּרנגוֹל הוֹדוּ	Hindi: पीरू
Croatian: puran, pura	Hungarian: pulyka	Indonesian: kalkun
Icelandic: kalkúnn	Italian: tacchino	Japanese: 七面鳥
Korean: 칠면조	Lithuanian: kalakutas	Latvian: tītars
Malay: ayam belanda	Dutch: kalkoen	Norwegian: kalkun
Polish: indyk	Persian: بوقلمون	Pashto: يو ډول مرغه
Portuguese: peru	Romanian: curcan	Russian: индейка
Slovak: moriak, morka	Slovenian: puran	Serbian: ćurka
Swedish: kalkon	Thai: ไก่งวง	Turkish: hindi
Taiwanese: 火雞	Ukrainian: індик; індичка	Urdu: ايک قسم کا مرغ، فيل مرغ
Vietnamese: gà tây	Chinese: 火鸡
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