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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Mongolian conqueror who led his nomadic hordes from their capital at Samarqand in central Asia to overrun vast areas of Persia, Turkey, Russia, and India.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A Tatar conquerer, also called
Timur orTimour (tē*môr") orTimur Bey , alsoTimur-Leng ('Timur the Lame'), which was corrupted toTamerlane . He was born in Central Asia, 1333: died 1405. Though he claimed descent from Jenghiz Khan, it is believed that he was in fact descended from a follower of the Khan. He became a ruler about 1370 of a realm whose capital was Samarkand; conquered Persia, Central Asia, and in 1398 a great part of India, including Delhi; waged war with the Turkish Sultan Bajazet I. (Beyazid), whom he defeated at Ancyra in 1402 and took prisoner; and died while preparing to invade China. He is theTamerlaine of the plays.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405)
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Examples
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I crossed the Straits in good order, but came to grief in Eastern Siberia -- all because of Tamerlane is the excuse I have grown accustomed to making.
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"Ay, him they call Tamerlane, because he is shorn of two toes."
The Prince of India — Volume 01 Lewis Wallace 1866
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Lame, whom we call Tamerlane, with sixty thousand men; after Tamerlane,
The Companions of Jehu Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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The setting is Turaqistan, a fictional stand-in for Iraq where the troops and military might of a vast corporation called Tamerlane -- read Halliburton -- are engaged, Hauser tells us, in "the first war ever to be 100-per-cent outsourced to private enterprise."
Perfect Waves, 2008
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But, from contemporary evidence, it is clear that he had gained some experience in the provinces before he made his first appearance on the London boards, when his Tamerlane was a decided failure.
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
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