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YENISEI
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian
Synonyms:
Enets; Entsi; Entsy; Yenisei; Yenisei-Samoyed; Yeniseian
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Yenisei" is a kind of...):
Samoyed; Samoyedic (the Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed in northwestern Siberia)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A Russian river in Siberia; rises in mountains near the Mongolian border and flows generally northward into the Kara Sea
Synonyms:
Yenisei; Yenisei River; Yenisey; Yenisey River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Yenisei" is a part of...):
Siberia (a vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters)