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Dezhou

Syllables: De·zhou

Dezhou proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Shandong, China.

Proper noun

Dezhou

  1. A prefecture-level city of Shandong, China.
    • In the winter of 1866-7 Messrs. Stanley and Williams made a tour to Têchou, Shantung, about 160 miles to the south, and later Messrs. Stanley and Goodrich made the same trip.[1907, “American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. A. B. C. F. M. (美國公理會), 1810.”, in D. MacGillivray, editor, A Century of Protestant Missions in China (1807-1907) Being the Centenary...
    • In addition, two model reading centres have been identified: one in Dezhou in Shandong Province and the other in Shenzhen in Guangdong Province.2007, “Reading Promotion in China”, in Bookbird, volume 45, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2026, page 58

Forms of Dezhou

alternative formTe-chou

Origin of Dezhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 德州 (Dézhōu).

Questions about Dezhou

What does Dezhou mean?
Dezhou means a prefecture-level city of Shandong, China.
What part of speech is Dezhou?
Dezhou is a proper noun.

Words near Dezhou in the dictionary

  1. Dezaly
  2. Dezenski
  3. Dezenskis
  4. dezh
  5. dezhes
  6. Dezhou
  7. dezinc
  8. dezinced
  9. dezincification
  10. dezincifications
  11. dezincified

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