Turkoman
[tә:kәmәn]
Definition
(noun.) a member of a Turkic people living in Turkmenistan and neighboring areas.
Checker: Terrance--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Same as Turcoman.
Checker: Zachariah
Definition
n. a member of a branch of the Turkish race found in Central Asia to the north of Persia.
Checker: Sophia
Examples
- I have myself recently bred a foal from a bay mare (offspring of a Turkoman horse and a Flemish mare) by a bay English race-horse. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The dynasty founded by Timur in Persia was extinguished by another Turkoman horde fifty years later. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And a Turkoman, ruling in India, was necessarily ignorant of much that Europe had been painfully learning for a thousand years. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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