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Chuguchak

Chuguchak proper noun: tacheng (a county-level city of the Xinjiang autonomous region, China).

Proper noun

Chuguchak

  1. (dated) Tacheng (a county-level city of the Xinjiang autonomous region, China).
    • My four months on the desert road to Turkestan were the first part of a journey overland from Peking to India. The Mongolian journey I made alone in 1926, but early in the following year my wife joined me at Chuguchak, on the Siberian border, and together we traveled on through Chinese Central Asia...1929, Owen Lattimore, “Preface”, in The Desert Road To Turkestan, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page vii
    • Such an adventure as this, involving a midwinter sledge trip of her from Semipalatinsk on the Transsiberian Railway to Chuguchak on the borders of Turkestan. a meeting at Chuguchak with Mr. Lattimore, who had come across Inner Mongolia by caravan, and a leisurely exploration of an isolated region...1934 September 2, R.L. Duffus, “A Woman's Trek to Turkestan; Eleanor Lattimore, the First Woman to Travel Overland From Peking to India, Writes Buoyantly of Her Adventures”, in The New York Times...

Examples of Chuguchak in a sentence

  • Such an adventure as this, involving a midwinter sledge trip of her from Semipalatinsk on the Transsiberian Railway to Chuguchak on the borders of Turkestan. a meeting at Chuguchak with Mr.1934 September 2, R.L. Duffus, “A Woman's Trek to Turkestan; Eleanor Lattimore, the First Woman to Travel Overland From Peking to India...
  • Tatar merchants were involved in trade with China, especially Sinkiang, and gained a foothold in the border market of Chuguchak as early as the beginning of the nineteenth century.1960, Serge A. Zenkovsky, Pan-Turkism and Islam in Russia, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 21:
  • By chance—ill chance, as it had turned out—Georg Vasel, the young German airfield engineer, found himself at the remote town of Chuguchak on the Sinkiang-Soviet border at the time.1985, Peter Hopkirk, Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia, W. W. Norton and Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 226:

Forms of Chuguchak

alternative formTchukuchak

Origin of Chuguchak

Likely from Russian Чугучак (Čugučak).

Questions about Chuguchak

What does Chuguchak mean?
Chuguchak means tacheng (a county-level city of the Xinjiang autonomous region, China).
How do you use Chuguchak in a sentence?
Such an adventure as this, involving a midwinter sledge trip of her from Semipalatinsk on the Transsiberian Railway to Chuguchak on the borders of Turkestan. a meeting at Chuguchak with Mr.
What part of speech is Chuguchak?
Chuguchak is a proper noun.

Words near Chuguchak in the dictionary

  1. chuggy
  2. chughole
  3. chugholes
  4. chugs
  5. chugs away
  6. Chuguchak
  7. chugwagon
  8. chugwagons
  9. Chugwater
  10. Chuhai
  11. chuhch

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