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chinze

chinze is the alternative spelling of chinthe.

Meaning of chinthe

Noun

chinthe (plural chinthes)

  1. A leograph that is often seen at the entrances of Southeast Asian pagodas and temples
    • The artists are forced endlessly to carve figures of elephants and leographs of chinthes.1998, Feroz Kapadia, South East Asia: Burma, Cambodia, Anmol publications, page 85

Forms of chinze

pluralchinzes

Questions about chinze

What is chinze the alternative spelling of?
Chinze is the alternative spelling of chinthe.

Words near chinze in the dictionary

  1. chiny chin chin
  2. chiny chin chins
  3. Chinyang
  4. Chinyanja
  5. Chinyelu
  6. chinze
  7. chinzes
  8. chiné
  9. chio
  10. chio bu
  11. Chio turpentine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chinze (page history and authors); chinthe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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