Mongol
['mɑŋgəl]
Definition
(noun.) a member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia.
(adj.) of or relating to the region of Mongolia or its people or their languages or cultures; 'the Mongol invaders'; 'a Mongolian pony'; 'Mongolian syntax strongly resembles Korean syntax' .
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Definition
(n.) One of the Mongols.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Mongolia or the Mongols.
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Definition
n. and adj. one of an Asiatic people belonging to the Ural-Altaic branch of the human family mainly inhabiting Mongolia.—adjs. Mongō′lian Mongol′ic.
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Examples
- The Mongol wave had washed over Poland, but had never subjugated it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The great Mongol Empire of Baber, Akbar, and Aurangzeb was now far gone in decay. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Christianity so vitiated was not good enough for the Mongol mind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For Mongols and Turcomans riding is not a luxury; even the Mongol shepherds tend their flocks on horseback. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thereafter the Mongol story is one of division and decay. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By 1260 the impulse of Mongol conquest had already passed its zenith. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There an assembly of Mongol leaders elected Ogdai Khan, the son of Jengis, as his successor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Mongol hosts then swept right across Asia to Russia (1235), an amazing march. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To him perhaps quite as much as to Jengis is the efficiency of the Mongol military machine to be ascribed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Mongol dynasty that Kublai Khan had founded in China, the Yuan dynasty, lasted from 1280 until 1368. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The decay of Mongol energy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is very difficult to explain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In no case did Christianity succeed in capturing the imagination of these Mongol states. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The boundary line between Mongol and Aryan, which had lain somewhere east of the Pamirs in the days of Pericles, had receded now to Hungary. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To the north of the Caspian a Mongol army encountered a Russian force from Kieff. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But though the Mongols were victorious at Liegnitz, they did not continue their drive westward. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We hear too much in history of the campaigns and massacres of the Mongols, and not enough of their indubitable curiosity and zest for learning. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The empire of Kin had the resources of half China behind it, and in the struggle the Mongols learnt very much of the military science of the Chinese. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The primitive custom of both Aryans and Mongols of holding great feasts in halls still held good, and there was much hard drinking. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Great hopes were entertained by the papacy for the conversion of the Mongols to Christianity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Mongols were in the twelfth century a tribe subject to those Kin who had conquered Northeast China. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For Mongols and Turcomans riding is not a luxury; even the Mongol shepherds tend their flocks on horseback. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- From entire obscurity the Mongols came very suddenly into history towards the close of the twelfth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thereafter nothing held the Mongols in the Kharismian territories. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Bagdad was still the religious capital of Islam, and the Mongols had become bitterly hostile to the Moslems. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Kieff was destroyed in 1240, and nearly all Russia became tributary to the Mongols. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Mongols in China and Central Asia turned to Buddhism; in South Russia, Western Turkestan, and the Ilkhan Empire they embraced Islam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So it was the Mongols appeared on the northern shores of the Black Sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In China the Mongols were already saturated with Chinese civilization by the time of Kublai. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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