YENISEI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Yenisei mean? 

• YENISEI (noun)
  The noun YENISEI has 2 senses:

1. a Russian river in Siberia; rises in mountains near the Mongolian border and flows generally northward into the Kara Sea

2. the Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian

  Familiarity information: YENISEI used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YENISEI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Russian river in Siberia; rises in mountains near the Mongolian border and flows generally northward into the Kara Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Yenisei; Yenisei River; Yenisey; Yenisey River

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Enets; Entsi; Entsy; Yenisei; Yenisei-Samoyed; Yeniseian

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

Samoyed; Samoyedic (the Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed in northwestern Siberia)