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/mɑŋgˈoʊliən/ /mɑŋgˈoʊljən/ Listen

Mongolian

adjective

Of or relating to the modern Mongolian People's Republic.

Of or relating to the region of Mongolia or its people or their languages or cultures. Synonym: Mongol. "A Mongolian pony" , "Mongolian syntax strongly resembles Korean syntax"

noun

A member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia. Synonym: Mongol.

A family of Altaic language spoken in Mongolia. Synonyms: Mongolic, Mongolic language.

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"Mongolian" Quotes from Famous Books

... shoulder heaved and he sent an iron fist smash into Magnus's bland Mongolian visage, laying him on the lawn as flat as a starfish. Two or three of the police instantly put their hands on Royce; but to the rest it seemed as if all reason had broken up and the universe were turning into ...

— The Innocence of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton

... southwest of the Lower Volga, in the flat region lying to the north of the Caucasus, we find another pastoral tribe, the Kalmyks, differing widely from the two former in language, in physiognomy, and in religion. Their language, a dialect of the Mongolian, has no close affinity with any other language in this part of the world. In respect of religion they are likewise isolated, for they are Buddhists, and have consequently no co-religionists nearer than Mongolia or Thibet. But it is their physiognomy that most ...

— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace

... from the Szekler Stone that our fathers repulsed the whole Mongolian horde?" was ...

— Manasseh - A Romance of Transylvania • Maurus Jokai

... a few of the women were closely veiled, a majority of them wearing an apology for veiling, merely a strip of white lace covering the forehead down to the eyebrows. Some were yellow, and some white-types of the Mongolian and Caucasian races. Now and then a pretty face was seen, rarely a beautiful one. Many were plump, even to corpulence, and these were the closest veiled, being considered the greatest beauties I presume, since with the Turk obesity is the chief element of comeliness. As ...

— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan

... This victorious, square-headed Mongolian had gotten into his head what the dolichocephalic German blond, who, according to German anthropologists is the highest product of Europe, and the brachycephalic brunette of Gaul and the Latin and the Slav have never been able ...

— Youth and Egolatry • Pio Baroja

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