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Ottoman   /ˈɑtəmən/   Listen
Ottoman

adjective
1.
Of or relating to the Ottoman Empire or its people or its culture.
noun
(pl. ottomans)
1.
A Turk (especially a Turk who is a member of the tribe of Osman I).  Synonyms: Osmanli, Ottoman Turk.
2.
The Turkish dynasty that ruled the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century to its dissolution after World War I.  Synonym: Ottoman dynasty.
3.
Thick cushion used as a seat.  Synonyms: hassock, pouf, pouffe, puff.
4.
A low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person.  Synonyms: footrest, footstool, tuffet.



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"Ottoman" Quotes from Famous Books



... good-will of the Greek population. The Greeks scattered over the countries in the Levant, amount to about five millions, and they are the most active and intelligent portion of the population of the greater part of the provinces in which they dwell. The declining state of the Ottoman empire, and the warlike spirit of the Greek mountaineers and sailors, induced both Russia and England to commence bidding for the favour of the insurgents. In 1822 the deputy sent by the Greeks to solicit the compassion of the European ministers assembled at Verona, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 • Various
... casually collected armies in which foreign mercenaries were almost the only genuine soldiers—such was Persia now. It was something very unlike the vigorous rule of Cyrus and the imperial system of the first Darius—something very like the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth century A.D.—something which would collapse before the first Western leader of men who could command money of his own making and a professional army of ...
— The Ancient East • D. G. Hogarth
... from their horror over the wrecking of the Council House when word was brought that an attempt had been made to blow up the Ottoman Bank. ...
— The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 44, September 9, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various
... returned, and he hummed a bright little melody as he sauntered to the morning-room for his customary cigarette. As he entered the room the melody made way abruptly for a pious invocation. Gracefully asprawl on the ottoman, in an attitude of almost exaggerated repose, was the boy of the woods. He was drier than when Van Cheele had last seen him, but no other alteration ...
— Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches • Saki (H.H. Munro)
... decrees of God and follow the immutable decision of fate. Such as I know you, I believe that you only require the possession of Zelmi to be completely happy, and that you will become one of the pillars of the Ottoman Empire." ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt


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