Definitions for Turkestan

• Definition
• Anagrams (520)

Turkestan Tur·ke·stan

Spelling: [tur-kuh-stan, -stahn]

IPA: /ˌtɜr kəˈstæn, -ˈstɑn/

Turkestan is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 520 anagrams from letters in Turkestan (aeknrsttu).

Definitions for Turkestan

noun

1. a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Examples for Turkestan

Khokand is one of the most important centres of trade in Turkestan.

It is the meeting-place of the caravan roads from India, Persia, and Turkestan.

But what was that to me who had escaped from the torments of Turkestan?

When I was in Turkestan I became acquainted with one of these men.

I thought that we might in the spring visit the Caucasus and Turkestan.

I bought one in Turkestan for 6, which I was told was cheap.

After seventeen days' march they reached the Lake of Lobnor in Turkestan.

Turkestan was the next part of the empire to claim attention.

Through this gorge runs the high road to Turkestan and Ghuzni.

When I was in Turkestan a young officer, a cousin of the Sultanas, was ill.