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Haimen

Syllables: Hai·men

Haimen proper noun: a district of Nantong, Jiangsu, China; a former county-level city and former county of Nantong, Jiangsu, China.

Proper noun

Haimen

  1. A district of Nantong, Jiangsu, China; a former county-level city and former county of Nantong, Jiangsu, China.
    • At the mouth of the Yangtze, population-density on the island of Tsungming and the peninsula Haimen reaches an exaggerated figure, the one of 1475, the other of 700 inhabitants per square kilometre.1926, Paul Vidal de La Blache, translated by Millicent Todd Bingham, Principles of Human Geography, London: Constable Publishers, published 1959, →OCLC, page 76
    • Japanese authorities served notice today that they intended to land troops at Haimen, 200 miles down the coast from Shanghai, later tomorrow in a new move to tighten the China coast blockade.1939 February 17, “JAPANESE TO SEIZE NEW COASTAL AREA; Foreign Shipping Is Warned of Move to Tighten Blockade South of Shanghai FRENCH IN HANKOW CLASH Gunboat to Aid Americans at Kuling--Invaders...

Forms of Haimen

alternative formHai-men

Origin of Haimen

Borrowed from Mandarin 海門／海门 (Hǎimén, literally “sea gate”).

Questions about Haimen

What does Haimen mean?
Haimen means a district of Nantong, Jiangsu, China; a former county-level city and former county of Nantong, Jiangsu, China.
What part of speech is Haimen?
Haimen is a proper noun.

Words near Haimen in the dictionary

  1. haily
  2. Haim
  3. Haim-Munk syndrome
  4. Haiman
  5. Haimans
  6. Haimen
  7. haimisch
  8. haimish
  9. Haimowitz
  10. Haimowitzes
  11. haimura

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