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A team member of the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Elks (formerly known as the Eskimos).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canadian
Topics: ball-games, football, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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A surname from Dutch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Acronym of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Any of various large species of deer such as the red deer, moose or wapiti (see usage notes).
Any of the subspecies of the moose (Alces alces, the largest member of the deer family, alternatively named Eurasian elk to avoid confusion with the wapiti), that occurs only in Europe and Asia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, Europe
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noun
Any of various large species of deer such as the red deer, moose or wapiti (see usage notes).
Common wapiti (Cervus canadensis), the second largest member of the deer family, once thought to be a subspecies of red deer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US
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noun
Any of various large species of deer such as the red deer, moose or wapiti (see usage notes).
Sambar (Cervus unicolor).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: British, India
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noun
Obsolete form of elke (common swan (Cygnus cygnus, syn. Cygnus ferus)).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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A member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, an American fraternal order.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
An Acorn Electron computer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
common deer of temperate Europe and Asia
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: red deer, American elk, wapiti, Cervus elaphus
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Broader terms: deer, cervid
Narrower terms: hart, stag, hind, brocket
noun
large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: wapiti, American elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis
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Broader terms: deer, cervid
noun
large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: European elk, moose, Alces alces
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Broader terms: deer, cervid
History
Perhaps a reduced form of Dutch van Elk.
From Middle English elk, from Old English eolc, eolh (“elk”), from Proto-West Germanic *elh, from Proto-Germanic *elhaz, *algiz (“elk”), from Proto-Indo-European *h1élḱis, *h1ólḱis, variant of *h1elh1én, from *h1el- (“deer”). See also Low German Elk, German Elch, Danish elg, Norwegian elg, Swedish älg; also Polish łoś, Russian лось (losʹ), Vedic Sanskrit ऋश्य (ṛ́śya, “antelope”); also German Elen, Tocharian A yäl, Tocharian B ylem (“gazelle”), Lithuanian élnis (“stag”), Armenian եղնիկ (eġnik, “doe, hind”). Doublet of Elhaz.
