OTTOMAN (ottomans)

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Irregular inflected form: ottomans   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ottoman mean? 

• OTTOMAN (noun)
  The noun OTTOMAN has 4 senses:

1. a Turk (especially a Turk who is a member of the tribe of Osman I)

2. the Turkish dynasty that ruled the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century to its dissolution after World War I

3. thick cushion used as a seat

4. a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person

  Familiarity information: OTTOMAN used as a noun is uncommon.

• OTTOMAN (adjective)
  The adjective OTTOMAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the Ottoman Empire or its people or its culture

  Familiarity information: OTTOMAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OTTOMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Turk (especially a Turk who is a member of the tribe of Osman I)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Osmanli; Ottoman; Ottoman Turk

Hypernyms ("Ottoman" is a kind of...):

Turk (a native or inhabitant of Turkey)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The Turkish dynasty that ruled the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century to its dissolution after World War I

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Ottoman; Ottoman dynasty

Hypernyms ("Ottoman" is a kind of...):

dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Thick cushion used as a seat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hassock; ottoman; pouf; pouffe; puff

Hypernyms ("ottoman" is a kind of...):

seat (furniture that is designed for sitting on)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

footrest; footstool; ottoman; tuffet

Hypernyms ("ottoman" is a kind of...):

stool (a simple seat without a back or arms)

• OTTOMAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the Ottoman Empire or its people or its culture

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Ottoman Empire (a Turkish sultanate of southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa and southeastern Europe; created by the Ottoman Turks in the 13th century and lasted until the end of World War I; although initially small it expanded until it superseded the Byzantine Empire)

 Context examples 

Henry Lynn has taken possession of an ottoman at the feet of Louisa: Adele shares it with him: he is trying to talk French with her, and Louisa laughs at his blunders.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Some of them threw themselves in half-reclining positions on the sofas and ottomans: some bent over the tables and examined the flowers and books: the rest gathered in a group round the fire: all talked in a low but clear tone which seemed habitual to them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My seat, to which Bessie and the bitter Miss Abbot had left me riveted, was a low ottoman near the marble chimney-piece; the bed rose before me; to my right hand there was the high, dark wardrobe, with subdued, broken reflections varying the gloss of its panels; to my left were the muffled windows; a great looking-glass between them repeated the vacant majesty of the bed and room.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Yet it was merely a very pretty drawing-room, and within it a boudoir, both spread with white carpets, on which seemed laid brilliant garlands of flowers; both ceiled with snowy mouldings of white grapes and vine-leaves, beneath which glowed in rich contrast crimson couches and ottomans; while the ornaments on the pale Parian mantelpiece were of sparkling Bohemian glass, ruby red; and between the windows large mirrors repeated the general blending of snow and fire.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And now it is deluged with a nectarous flood—the young germs swamped—delicious poison cankering them: now I see myself stretched on an ottoman in the drawing-room at Vale Hall at my bride Rosamond Oliver's feet: she is talking to me with her sweet voice—gazing down on me with those eyes your skilful hand has copied so well—smiling at me with these coral lips.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)