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# turkey

«turkey» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large bird kept on farms, with a red wobbly piece of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a turkey, turkeys; Turkey — the country, now officially Türkiye); adjective-like use «cold turkey» (informal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A turkey is a large bird kept on farms, with a red wobbly piece of skin on its neck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkey/#m1)

2) Turkey is the meat of this bird, often eaten at Christmas or Thanksgiving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkey/#m2)

3) Turkey (with a capital T) is a country between Europe and Asia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkey/#m3)

4) (informal, US) A turkey is a failure, like a very bad film or show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkey/#m4)

5) «Go cold turkey» (informal) means to stop a habit suddenly and completely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkey/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life turkey is a big family meal at Thanksgiving (USA, Canada) and Christmas (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand). In maths problems, a turkey's weight and cooking time are calculated. In geography, Turkey is a country. Phrases: «roast turkey», «talk turkey» (talk seriously).

### examples

- We had roast turkey for Christmas dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkey/#x1)
- The turkey gobbled at the farmer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkey/#x2)
- Cook a turkey for 40 minutes for each kilogram. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkey/#x3)
- A turkey sandwich is my favourite lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkey/#x4)
- Istanbul is the biggest city in Turkey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkey/#x5)
- That film was a real turkey; nobody liked it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkey/#x6)
- Dad gave up chocolate cold turkey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkey/#x7)
- He was much larger than a turkey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkey/#x8)

### note

Plural: turkeys (not «turkies»). The country takes a capital letter. Safety: cook turkey thoroughly so the inside is not pink. In maths: weight × minutes per kilogram gives the cooking time.

### In the corpora

- [Constantinople is the old name of Istanbul in Turkey.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat/15/)
- [The Kurds are a people of over 30 million without their own state, split mainly between Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/19/)
- [The Ottoman Empire ended in 1922, and the Republic of Turkey was founded in 1923.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century/8/)
- [The first coins were made about 2,600 years ago in Lydia, a land in what is now Turkey.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/5-money-s-history-shells-coins-paper-cards-phones/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «turkey» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkey/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.