Samoyed

[ sam-uh-yed, suh-moi-id ]

/ ˌsæm əˈyɛd, səˈmɔɪ ɪd /

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noun

a member of a Uralic people dwelling in W Siberia and the far NE parts of European Russia.

Also Samoyedic. a subfamily of Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed people.

(sometimes lowercase) one of a Russian breed of medium-sized dogs that have long, dense, white or cream hair and are used by the Samoyed people for herding reindeer and pulling sleds.

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Origin of Samoyed

First recorded in 1580–90, Samoyed is from the Russian word samoyéd

Words nearby Samoyed

Samos, samosa, Samoset, Samothrace, samovar, Samoyed, Samoyedic, samp, sampaguita, Sampaio, sampan

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How to use Samoyed in a sentence

Now, this seems at once to connect the Aino with the Samoyed and the Lapp.
The Testimony of Tradition|David MacRitchie
To the Samoyed, for instance, the reindeer which serves him as unit of value is wealth in the most concrete and tangible form.
The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other Essays|Thorstein Veblen
The Samoyed shamans are, as a rule, the most intelligent and cunning of the whole race.
The Origin of Man and of his Superstitions|Carveth Read
The modifications to which our own alphabet has been subjected, are those that Castrn has made in his Samoyed grammar and lexicon.
Opuscula|Robert Gordon Latham

Now the bow appears to have almost completely gone out of use, for we saw not a single Samoyed archer.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II|A.E. Nordenskieold

British Dictionary definitions for Samoyed

Samoyed

/ (ˌsæməˈjɛd) /

noun

plural -yed or -yeds a member of a group of peoples who migrated along the Russian Arctic coast and now live chiefly in the area of the N Urals: related to the Finns

the languages of these peoples, related to Finno-Ugric within the Uralic family

(səˈmɔɪɛd) a Siberian breed of dog of the spitz type, having a dense white or cream coat with a distinct ruff, and a tightly curled tail

Derived forms of Samoyed

Samoyedic, adjective

Word Origin for Samoyed

C17: from Russian Samoed

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