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SAMOYED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Siberian breed of white or cream-colored dog of the spitz family
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Samoyed" is a kind of...):
spitz (any of various stocky heavy-coated breeds of dogs native to northern regions having pointed muzzles and erect ears with a curled furry tail)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed in northwestern Siberia
Synonyms:
Samoyed; Samoyedic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Samoyed" is a kind of...):
Uralic; Uralic language (a family of Ural-Altaic languages)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Samoyed"):
Nenets; Nentsi; Nentsy; Yurak-Samoyed (a Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed of northern Siberia)
Enets; Entsi; Entsy; Yenisei; Yenisei-Samoyed; Yeniseian (the Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian)
Nganasan (the Uralic language spoken by the Nganasan)
Ostyak-Samoyed; Selkup (the Uralic language spoken by the Ostyak-Samoyed)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A Samoyedic-speaking person in northwestern Siberia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Samoyed" is a kind of...):
Russian (a native or inhabitant of Russia)
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