Tatar
Americannoun
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a member of a modern Turkic people living in the Tatar Autonomous Republic and adjacent regions of eastern European Russia and in widely scattered communities in western Siberia and central Asia.
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the language of this people, including the literary language of the Tatar Autonomous Republic, the dialects of the Tatar Autonomous Republic and adjacent regions of the Volga basin Volga Tatar, and numerous other dialects, some transitional to other Turkic languages.
adjective
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of or relating to the Tatars or their language.
noun
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a member of a Mongoloid people who under Genghis Khan established a vast and powerful state in central Asia from the 13th century until conquered by Russia in 1552
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a descendant of this people, now scattered throughout Russia but living chiefly in the Tatar Republic
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any of the languages spoken by the present-day Tatars, belonging to various branches of the Turkic family of languages, esp Kazan Tatar
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of Tatar
First recorded in 1805–15; see origin at Tartar
Example Sentences
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“The allegorical possibilities,” Ms. Tatar writes, “are nearly endless.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
“Arachnophilia,” or love of spiders, Ms. Tatar writes, “is a word that you will not yet find in a dictionary.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Ten years earlier, his predecessor Stalin had deported Crimea's Tatar population, so the majority population was ethnic Russian.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
Mr Khan, the MP for Manchester Rusholme, also met with Turkish-Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar - a move which the Cypriot government described as "absolutely condemnable and unacceptable".
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2025
They spoke Russian fairly well, though they professed the Mohammedan creed; and, though their dress and habits were then partly Russian and partly Tatar, koumiss was their invariable drink from morning till night.
From A Russian Gentleman by S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich) Aksakov
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