Home › Words › T › turpinturpinturpin means A surname.EtymologyFrom Old French [Term?], of Germanic origin: Tur (“god or divine”) + pin (“evergreen tree”).nameA surname.An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Beaver County, Oklahoma, United States.An unincorporated community in King William County, Virginia, United States.nounAny terrestrial tortoise.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.terrapin 69% match — Any of several small turtles of the families Emydidae and Geoemydidae found throughout the world. vs turpin →testudineous 64% match — Characteristic of a tortoise, or the shell of a tortoise. vs turpin →tortoiselike 61% match — Resembling or characteristic of a tortoise; thus frequently slow or unhurried vs turpin →terricoline 61% match — Synonym of terricolous. vs turpin →terraranan 61% match — Any frog of the genus Pristimantis. vs turpin →testudinated 61% match — testudinate; resembling a tortoise shell vs turpin →tortipelvic 61% match — Relating to tortipelvis. vs turpin →padloper 60% match — Any of the genus Homopus of tiny tortoises, indigenous and endemic to southern Africa. vs turpin →