Siamese Definition

sīə-mēz, -mēs
adjective

Thai.

Webster's New World
Of or relating to Siam; Thai.
American Heritage
Designating or of a pipe coupling or joint in the form of a Y, for joining two pipes or hoses to one pipe.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun

Thai.

Webster's New World
A native or inhabitant of Siam; a Thai.
American Heritage
Any of a breed of domestic cat, thought to have originated in Siam, with blue eyes and a light-colored coat that is darker on the face, ears, legs, and tail.
Webster's New World
The Siamese cat.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
pronoun

The Thai language.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Siamese

Noun

Singular:
Siamese
Plural:
siameses

Origin of Siamese

  • After Siam (Thailand)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Siamese Sentence Examples

  • It was destroyed by the Siamese in 1828.

  • Siamese cats may have the tail either straight or kinked, but whether the latter feature belongs of right to the breed, or has been acquired by crossing with the ordinary black and tabby kink-tailed cats of the country, is not known.

  • The blue eyes -and the white coat of the kitten indicate that the Siamese breed is a semi-albino, which when adult tends towards melanism, such a combination of characters being apparently unknown in any other animal.

  • In the royal Siamese breed the head is rather long and pointed, the body also elongated with relatively slender limbs, the coat glossy and close, the eyes blue, and the general colour some shade of cream or pink, with the face, ears, feet, under-parts, and tail chocolate or seal-brown.

  • This distribution seems to indicate that they once spread over the whole region, and were divided by the later advance of the Siamese and others.

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Words Starting With

SSISIA

Words Ending With

ESEESE

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