turkey
n. C / Un. a large bird often eaten on special holidays like Thanksgiving or Christmas. It is also the name of a country located between Europe and Asia.
n. a large galliform bird of the genus Meleagris, native to North America and widely domesticated for food. When capitalised, it refers to the transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula.
We are having roast turkey for dinner tonight.
The family gathered to prepare a traditional stuffed turkey for their annual holiday celebration.
While the domesticated turkey is prized for its meat, its wild ancestors are known for their surprising agility and complex social hierarchies within forest ecosystems.
From Middle English Turkye, from Anglo-Norman Turkye, Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (“Turk”), from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /turk/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ür²k̥).
Uncountable when referring to the meat as food; countable when referring to the individual birds or the country.
I am going to the TurkeyI am going to TurkeyProper names of countries generally do not take the definite article 'the'.