Grand Turk
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From a species of cactus on the island, the Turk's Cap Cactus (Melocactus intortus), which has a distinctive cap reminiscent of an Ottoman fez.
Proper noun[edit]
- Ellipsis of Grand Turk Island, the largest island in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Translations[edit]
an island in the Turks and Caicos Islands
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Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
Grand Turk (plural Grand Turks)
- (archaic) A sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1868 March, “[Review of] Annual Reports of Insurance Companies, Good, Bad, and Indifferent […]”, in The National Quarterly Review, volume 16, number 32, page 404:
- Because they are styled "the executive," "executive officers," &c., by their Jenkinses, and are declared by the same authorities to possess unbounded knowledge, and transcendent "executive ability," they sometimes fancy themselves the Czar, the Shah, or the Grand Turk […]