Definition of turban

• n. - A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck.
• n. - A kind of headdress worn by women.
• n. - The whole set of whorls of a spiral shell.