noun
1. a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
• Hypernyms: ↑Turki
• Member Holonyms: ↑Xinjiang, ↑Sinkiang, ↑Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region
2. the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China
• Hypernyms: ↑Turki, ↑Turkic, ↑Turko-Tatar, ↑Turkic language
3. the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language
• Hypernyms: ↑script
Useful english dictionary. 2012.