ottoman

plural ottomans

1. countableuncountablefurnitureAn upholstered sofa, without arms or a back, sometimes with a compartment for storing linen etc.

   A 39-year-old British woman was killed when a malfunctioning ottoman bed fell on her neck and asphyxiated her, a coroner’s report said.

   2024 October 14, Issy Ronald, “Woman killed by malfunctioning ottoman bed”, in CNN, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2024

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   In the middle of the room there is a big ottoman; and this, with the carpet, the Morris wall-papers, and the Morris chintz window curtains and brocade covers of the ottoman and its cushions, supply all the ornament, and are much too handsome to be hidden by odds and ends of useless things.

   1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act III, page 144

   These hefty features were on display together with dry-point engravings, marble busts, and mahogany whatnots, which the guests now squeezed between, plumping themselves down on over-stuffed ottomans beneath gleaming crystal electroliers.

   2015 July 26, Will Self, “Original short story: Architectural Salvage, by Will Self”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2016

2. countableuncountablefurnitureA low stool or thick cushion used to rest the feet or as a seat.

   This ottoman is set on casters, and is a great convenience for holding articles, while serving also as a seat.

   1869, Catherine E. Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, The American Woman’s Home

   Synonyms: footstool, hassock, pouffe, tuffet, tumpty

3. countableuncountablebusinessA fabric with a pronounced ribbed or corded effect, often made of silk or a mixture of cotton and silk-like yarns.

alternative archaic Otoman · alternative archaic Othoman

1. Archaic form of Osman, the name borne by
   1. historyOsman I (d. 1323/4), founder of the Ottoman Empire.

      Ottoman the firſte Emperour of this Turkiſhe nation, […]

      1560, A Famous Cronicle of Oure Time, Called Sleidanes Commentaries

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      In the beginning of this yere Sulton Solyman Pac called yͤ great Turke which was but the. viii. of the ligne of Ottoman, the firſt that toke vpō hym to be a great capitain or ruler […]

      1550, The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke

      In the Firſt Place are Conditores Imperiorum; Founders of States, and Common-Wealths: Such as were Romulus, Cyrus, Cæſar, Ottoman, Iſmael.

      1625, Francis Bacon, The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, pages 313–314

      It is unqueſtionable, that about the year 1300 upon Aladin’s Death, Ottoman was an abſolute Soveraign […]

      1689, Drue Cressener, The Judgments of God Upon the Roman-Catholick Church, page 128

      OTTOMAN the Son of Ethrogul the Son of Solyman (who was drove out of Perſia by the Tartars) was about A.D. 1290 ſaluted with the Title of Governor of the Oguzian Turks in Aſia […]

      1737, Benj. Martin, Bibliotheca Technologica: or, a Philological Library of Literary Arts and Sciences, page 396

      Ottoman, notwithſtanding this Succeſs, thought fit to agree to a Truce with the Chriſtians […]

      1751, A General History of the Several Nations of the World, page 123

   2. historyOsman II (1604–1622), sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1618 until his death.

      Oſman, or Ottoman II, […]

      1759, The Universal Traveller, page 458

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      And in the year 1618. (when Ottoman the ſecond (who ſucceeded his Uncle Muſtapha) was unſuccessful in his war againſt Poland, and was therefore ſlain by his Janizaries) […]

      1664, John Gadbury, Dies novissimus, page 36

      After theſe reign'd […] Ottoman II. ſtrangled by the Janizaries, […]

      1701, “TURKS”, in The Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical and Poetical Dictionary

   3. historyOsman III (1699–1757), sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1754 until his death.

      Ottoman III.

      1781, J. S. Charrier, A New Description of Europe, table 31, page 3

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      […] the reign of Ottoman III (reigned 1754–57) after the death of Mahmut I.

      2004, Atsuyuki Okabe, Islamic Area Studies with Geographical Information Systems, page 170

plural Ottomans · alternative archaic Otoman · alternative archaic Othoman

1. historyA member of the Ottoman dynasty.

   […] the Ottomans were a dynasty like every other, subject to the same laws of the rise and fall of states.

   2006, Robert Dankoff, An Ottoman Mentality, page 243

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   is trump our first ottoman president? >gilded everything >retarded, constantly scheming sons >a harem of slavic wives >elaborate headgear

   2025 January 23, @escapefrommelos, X

   Synonyms: Osman, Osmanid, Osmanli, Ottomanid

2. historyA citizen of the Ottoman Empire.

   Nearly 250,000 Ottomans of various military ranks were taken captive by the Allied forces during World War I, which was referred to in Turkish variously as Büyük Harp, Cihan Harbi and Harb-i Umumi (or simply Seferberlik among the older generation of Turks) until World War II.

   2002, Yücel Yanikdağ, “Marginal men: Ottoman prisoners of war in the Great War”, in The Turkish Studies Association Journal, volume 26, number 2, →JSTOR, pages 39–46

   Synonyms: Osman, Osmanian, Osmanli, Ottomanian

   1. historyAn ethnic Turk of the Ottoman Empire.

      Synonyms: Osman, Osmanian, Osmanli, Ottomanian

alternative archaic Otoman · alternative archaic Othoman

1. not comparablehistoryOf or relating to the Ottoman dynasty or the Ottoman Empire.

   Synonyms: Osman, Osmanian, Osmanic, Osmanid, Osmanli, Ottomanian, Ottomanic, Ottomanid

   1. not comparablehistoryOf or relating to the ethnic Turks of the Ottoman Empire.

      Synonyms: Osman, Osmanian, Osmanic, Osmanid, Osmanli, Ottomanian, Ottomanic, Ottomanid

alternative archaic Otoman · alternative archaic Othoman

1. historyThe Ottoman Turkish language.

   […] translated from Ottoman into Greek […]

   2009, Islamic Education in Europe, page 157

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   […] translated into Ottoman by a certain Mehmed Efendi […]

   1987, East encounters West, page 114

   […] translated from Ottoman into Persian […]

   2024, The History of Translation and Translators in the Ottoman Empire, page 60