ottoman

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)An upholstered sofa, without arms or a back, sometimes with a compartment for storing linen etc.

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

2. (countable, uncountable)A 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.”

3. (countable, uncountable)A fabric with a pronounced ribbed or corded effect, often made of silk or a mixture of cotton and silk-like yarns.
4. A 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.”

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

5. A 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.”

6. A citizen of the Ottoman Empire.

name

1. Archaic form of Osman, the name borne by

   “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 […]”

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

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

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

   “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 […]”

2. Archaic form of Osman, the name borne by

   “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) […]”

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

   “Oſman, or Ottoman II, […]”

3. Archaic form of Osman, the name borne by

   “Ottoman III.”

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

4. The Ottoman Turkish language.

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

   “[…] translated from Ottoman into Greek […]”

   “[…] translated from Ottoman into Persian […]”

adj

1. (not-comparable)Of or relating to the Ottoman dynasty or the Ottoman Empire.
2. (not-comparable)Of or relating to the Ottoman dynasty or the Ottoman Empire.