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Mon·gol

(mŏng′gəl, -gōl′, mŏn′-)

1. A member of any of the traditionally nomadic peoples of Mongolia.

2. See Mongolian.

3. Anthropology A member of the Mongoloid racial classification.

adj.

1. Of or relating to Mongolia, the Mongols, or their language or culture.

2. Anthropology Of or relating to the Mongoloid racial classification.

[Mongolian Moṅgol.]

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Mongol

(ˈmɒŋɡɒl; -ɡəl)

1. (Peoples) a native or inhabitant of Mongolia, esp a nomad

2. (Languages) the Mongolian language

mongol

(ˈmɒŋɡəl)

(Pathology) a formerly used and now highly offensive name for a person affected by Down's syndrome

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Mon•gol

(ˈmɒŋ gəl, -goʊl, ˈmɒn-)

n.

a. a member of a pastoral people or group of peoples of Mongolia prominent in medieval Asian history under Genghis Khan and his successors.

b. a member of any of the modern peoples descended from the historical Mongols, esp. the present inhabitants of Mongolia.

2. Mongoloid (def. 3).

3. Mongolian (def. 3).

adj.

4. Mongolian (def. 6).

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Noun	1.	Mongol - a member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia Mongolian Mongol Tatar, Tatar, Tartar - a member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century Kalka, Khalka, Khalkha - the Mongol people living in the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia
Adj.	1.	Mongol - of or relating to the region of Mongolia or its people or their languages or cultures; "the Mongol invaders"; "a Mongolian pony"; "Mongolian syntax strongly resembles Korean syntax" Mongolian

Translations

Mongol

[ˈmɒŋgəl] N

1. (= person) → mongol(a) m/f

2. (Ling) → mongol m

mongol

[ˈmɒŋgəl] (offensive)

A. N → mongólico/a m/f

B. ADJ → mongólico

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Mongol

[ˈmɒŋgɒl]

(= person) → Mongol(e) m/f

(= language) → mongol m

adj → mongol(e)

mongol

[ˈmɒŋg^əl] (offensive, old-fashioned)

adj → mongol(e)

n → mongol(e) m/f

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mongol

adj

(pej) → mongolisch

(Med) mongol → mongoloid

Mongol = Mongolian

(Med) he’s a mongol → er ist mongoloid

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Mongol

[ˈmɒŋgəl]

1. n (person) → mongolo/a; (language) → mongolo

2. adj → mongolo/a

mongol

[ˈmɒŋgəl] n & adj (offensive) → mongoloide (m/f)

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There, probably the same year and the next, he astonished the public with the two parts of 'Tamburlaine the Great,' a dramatization of the stupendous career of the bloodthirsty Mongol fourteenth-century conqueror.

(and before that medieval) is the lack of historical perspective which gives to Mongol shepherds the manners and speech of Greek classical antiquity as Marlowe had learned to know it at the university.

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Long ago one had borrowed the other's written language, and, untold generations before that, they had diverged from the common Mongol stock.

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There were Slavonian hunters, fair-skinned and mighty-muscled; short, squat Finns, with flat noses and round faces; Siberian half-breeds, whose noses were more like eagle- beaks; and lean, slant-eyed men, who bore in their veins the Mongol and Tartar blood as well as the blood of the Slav.

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The one I had selected wavered indecisively before me, and, as I swung wide to make the boarding gentle, filled suddenly and darted away, the smart Mongols shouting a wild rhythm as they bent to the sweeps.

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For six years, 1267-1273, the Song Dynasty twin cities of Xiangyang and Fancheng along the Yangtze River withstood siege by Mongol hordes.

Water to cause future wars, as in the past

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For Emperor Shah Jahan's great-grandfather's grandmother was supposed to have a blood line which, through her father, traced back to the Mongol emperor Genghis Khan, who lived about 450 years before Shah Jahan.

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