Ankara
- a city in and the capital of Turkey, in the central part.
Turkey
- a republic in W Asia and SE Europe. 296,184 sq. mi. (767,120 sq. km): 286,928 sq. mi. (743,145 sq. km) in Asia; 9257 sq. mi. (23,975 sq. km) in Europe. Capital: Ankara.
Examples from the Web for ankara
Contemporary Examples
For Ankara to allow a suicide bomber through to launch a flagrant attack at this moment also would appear to be odd timing.
But there is broad agreement between Washington and Ankara as to how the fight against ISIS should proceed, he said.
Ankara sent its warplanes aloft—at last—but not to bomb ISIS.
They see collusion and deception and they say Ankara is determined to subjugate them.
He too warned that an ISIS victory would mark the end of the faltering peace process between the Turkish Kurds and Ankara.
Historical Examples
Damascus sighed but smiled, and reopened diplomatic relations with Ankara that had been severed for more than twenty years.
The Golden JudgeNathaniel Gordon
An example may be also taken from the following sign for lie, falsehood, made by an Ankara, Fig. 233.
He intended to do this tomorrow, somewhere between the oasis and Ankara, but the Pasha's son had presented an awkward problem.
Hi Jolly!James Arthur Kjelgaard
The caravan for which Ali was handling camels came to an oasis one day out of Ankara and found another caravan already encamped.
Hi Jolly!James Arthur Kjelgaard
But he felt that he could make it from here to Ankara without difficulty and he'd had more than his fill of the Pasha's son.
Hi Jolly!James Arthur Kjelgaard
Ankara
- the capital of Turkey: an ancient city in the Anatolian highlands: first a capital in the 3rd century bc, in the Celtic kingdom of Galatia. Pop: 3 593 000 (2005 est)Ancient name: Ancyra Former name (until 1930): Angora
turkey
- a large gallinaceous bird, Meleagris gallopavo, of North America, having a bare wattled head and neck and a brownish iridescent plumage. The male is brighter and has a fan-shaped tail. A domestic variety is widely bred for its flesh
- the flesh of the turkey used as food
- a similar and related bird, Agriocharis ocellata (ocellated turkey), of Central and N South America
- any of various Australian birds considered to resemble the turkey, such as the bush turkey
- slang, mainly US and Canadian
- a dramatic production that fails; flop
- a thing or person that fails; dud
- slang, mainly US and Canadian a stupid, incompetent, or unappealing person
- slang (in tenpin bowling) three strikes in a row
- See cold turkey
- talk turkey informal, mainly US and Canadian to discuss frankly and practically
Word Origin
Turkey
- a republic in W Asia and SE Europe, between the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Aegean: the centre of the Ottoman Empire; became a republic in 1923. The major Asian part, consisting mainly of an arid plateau, is separated from European Turkey by the Bosporus, Sea of Marmara, and Dardanelles. Official languages: Turkish; Kurdish and Arabic minority languages. Religion: Muslim majority. Currency: lira. Capital: Ankara. Pop: 80 694 485 (2013 est). Area: 780 576 sq km (301 380 sq miles)
Word Origin and History for ankara
turkey
n.
1540s, "guinea fowl" (Numida meleagris), imported from Madagascar via Turkey, by Near East traders known as turkey merchants. The larger North American bird (Meleagris gallopavo) was domesticated by the Aztecs, introduced to Spain by conquistadors (1523) and thence to wider Europe, by way of North Africa (then under Ottoman rule) and Turkey (Indian corn was originally turkey corn or turkey wheat in English for the same reason).
The word turkey was first applied to it in English 1550s because it was identified with or treated as a species of the guinea fowl. The Turkish name for it is hindi, literally "Indian," probably via Middle French dinde (c.1600, contracted from poulet d'inde, literally "chicken from India," Modern French dindon), based on the common misconception that the New World was eastern Asia.
The New World bird itself reputedly reached England by 1524 at the earliest estimate, though a date in the 1530s seems more likely. By 1575, turkey was becoming the usual main course at an English Christmas. Meaning "inferior show, failure," is 1927 in show business slang, probably from the bird's reputation for stupidity. Meaning "stupid, ineffectual person" is recorded from 1951. Turkey shoot "something easy" is World War II-era, in reference to marksmanship contests where turkeys were tied behind a log with their heads showing as targets.
Turkey
Ankara
Capital of Turkey, located in west-central Turkey; the country's administrative, commercial, and cultural center.
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Turkey
Republic straddling southeastern Europe and the Middle East, bordered by the Black Sea to the north, Georgia and Armenia to the northeast, Iran to the east, Iraq and Syria to the southeast, the Mediterranean Sea and the Aegean Sea to the southwest, and Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest. Ninety-seven percent of the country is in Asia. Ankara is its capital, but Istanbul is its largest city and former imperial capital.
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Idioms and Phrases with ankara
turkey
see cold turkey; talk turkey.