1
: a member of any of a group of Turkic peoples found mainly in the Tatar Republic of Russia and parts of Siberia and central Asia
2
: any of the Turkic languages spoken by the Tatar peoples
Examples of Tatar in a Sentence
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Around it, in the wild fields, a fortification against Tatar raids from Crimea appeared first, and later, the Cossack saltworks.
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Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
International human rights groups and Crimean activists say that scores of people, mostly from the peninsula’s Tatar ethnic group, have been arrested and detained in brutal conditions.
—Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
John Minchillo/Associated Press The highest-profile free agents yet to be gobbled up as the weekend began included Rangers forwards Patrick Kane and Vladimir Tarasenko, who came to Broadway late in the season, along with Wild defenseman Matt Dumba and Devils winger Tomas Tatar.
—Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
Based on a poem by the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, the ballet tells the story of a Polish princess who is abducted by a Tatar chief and killed by the harem favorite in a jealous rage.
—Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times, 20 June 2023
Since the Kremlin’s takeover of Crimea, Russian security forces have persecuted the Tatar community, seeing them as disloyal, with dozens arrested on extremism charges, as well as some reportedly kidnapped and tortured.
—Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2023
Is the Tatar yoke, then, a myth?
—Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021
Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
International human rights groups and Crimean activists say that scores of people, mostly from the peninsula’s Tatar ethnic group, have been arrested and detained in brutal conditions.
—Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
John Minchillo/Associated Press The highest-profile free agents yet to be gobbled up as the weekend began included Rangers forwards Patrick Kane and Vladimir Tarasenko, who came to Broadway late in the season, along with Wild defenseman Matt Dumba and Devils winger Tomas Tatar.
—Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
Based on a poem by the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, the ballet tells the story of a Polish princess who is abducted by a Tatar chief and killed by the harem favorite in a jealous rage.
—Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times, 20 June 2023
Since the Kremlin’s takeover of Crimea, Russian security forces have persecuted the Tatar community, seeing them as disloyal, with dozens arrested on extremism charges, as well as some reportedly kidnapped and tortured.
—Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2023
Is the Tatar yoke, then, a myth?
—Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021
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“Tatar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Tatar. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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