Synonyms for Turkey
ˈtɜr kitur·key

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1. turkeynoun

   Either of two species of bird in the genus Meleagris with fan-shaped tails and wattled necks.

   Synonyms:
   Meleagris, ocellata, pavo, gallus

2. turkeynoun

   A failure.

   That film was a turkey.

   Synonyms:
   flop

3. turkeynoun

   Synonyms:
   fool, prat, jerk, idiot, plonker

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1. turkey, Meleagris gallopavonoun

   large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food

   Synonyms:
   joker, dud, turkey, bomb

2. Turkey, Republic of Turkeynoun

   a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923

   Synonyms:
   joker, dud, bomb

3. joker, turkeynoun

   a person who does something thoughtless or annoying

   "some joker is blocking the driveway"

   Synonyms:
   joker, dud, turkey, jokester, bomb

4. turkeynoun

   flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted

   Synonyms:
   joker, dud, bomb

5. turkey, bomb, dudnoun

   an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual

   "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"

   Synonyms:
   flop, turkey, washout, bomb, dud, misfire, joker, bomb calorimeter

Matched Categories

1. • Middle East
   • Country
   • Domestic Fowl
   • Flop
   • Poultry
   • Unpleasant Person

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "turkey":

   turkish, turquie, ankara, turkeys, turk, al-roumy

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How to use Turkey in a sentence?

1. French President Francois Hollande:

   As Turkey is making an effort to take in refugees -- who will not come to Europe -- it's reasonable that Turkey receive help from Europe to accommodate those refugees.

2. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu:

   Yesterday's attack was directly targeting Turkey and the perpetrator is the YPG and the divisive terrorist organisation PKK. All necessary measures will be taken against them.

3. Donald Tusk:

   We have to reiterate our call for Turkey to put a permanent end to its military action immediately and to withdraw its forces and respect international humanitarian law.

4. Russian President Vladimir Putin:

   If they (the European Commission) don't hinder us, then in essence we could realize part of the former South Stream project via Turkey.

5. Charles Krauthammer:

   What is surprising is that Obama announced publiclyafter the Merkel scandal that we will cease doing that to close allies, so apparently we did for close NATO allies, but we apparently made just a few exceptions and one of them is the leader of Turkey, Erdogan - not exactly a savory character. The other one was a close ally of democracy an elected leader, Netanyahu.