SAMOYED
Dictionary entry overview: What does Samoyed mean?
• SAMOYED (noun)
The noun SAMOYED has 3 senses:
1. a Samoyedic-speaking person in northwestern Siberia
2. the Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed in northwestern Siberia
3. Siberian breed of white or cream dog of the spitz family
Familiarity information: SAMOYED used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• SAMOYED (noun)
Meaning:
A Samoyedic-speaking person in northwestern Siberia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Samoyed" is a kind of...):
Russian (a native or inhabitant of Russia)
Meaning:
The Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed in northwestern Siberia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Samoyedic; Samoyed
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)
Meaning:
Siberian breed of white or cream dog of the spitz family
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Samoyede; Samoyed
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)
