Uighur n 1: a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas [syn: {Uigur}, {Uygur}] 2: the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur people in extreme northwestern China [syn: {Uigur}, {Uygur}] 3: the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language [syn: {Uigur}, {Uygur}]