Grand Turk
English
A view of the southwestern beach at Grand Turk, next to the cruise ship dock
Etymology
From a species of cactus on the island, the Turk's Cap Cactus (Melocactus intortus), which has a distinctive cap reminiscent of an Ottoman fez.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɹænd ˈtɜː(ɹ)k/
Proper noun
- short for Grand Turk Island, the largest island in the Turks and Caicos Islands
- historic title
- 1868, Edward Isidore Sears (ed.), The National Quarterly Review, volume 16, page 404:
- Because they are styled "the executive," "executive officers," &c., by their Jenkinses, and are declared by the same authorities to possess unbounded knowledge, and transcendent "executive ability," they sometimes fancy themselves the Czar, the Shah, or the Grand Turk […]
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Translations
an island in the Turks and Caicos Islands
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