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Hoisan

Hoisan proper noun: synonym of Taishan.

Proper noun

Hoisan

  1. Synonym of Taishan.
    • Mr. Dempsey stressed the fact that the beneficiaries will be well provided for financially if they are permitted to remain in the United States, and that the beneficiaries are fearful of returning to China because their husband-father was killed by the Communists in Hoisan in 1951.1958, Certain Aliens, pages 40–41
    • ML’s response to WL, that Hoisan people are like “soul people,” or people who are connected with soul music, ties back to his original point about passion and life: not only are Hoisan people connected to soul people from a musical perspective, to have “soul” also refers to having emotional energy...2014, Genevieve Leung, “Hoisan-wa in jest: Humor, laughter, and the construction of counter-hegemonic affect in contemporary Chinese American language maintenance”, in Humor, volume 27, number 2...
    Synonyms:
    Taishan

Synonyms of Hoisan

Origin of Hoisan

From Taishanese 臺山／台山 (hoi³ san¹).

Words formed from Hoisan

Questions about Hoisan

What does Hoisan mean?
Hoisan means synonym of Taishan.
What part of speech is Hoisan?
Hoisan is a proper noun.

Words near Hoisan in the dictionary

  1. hoiking
  2. hoiks
  3. hoing
  4. hoings
  5. Hoiping
  6. Hoisan
  7. Hoisanese
  8. hoise
  9. hoised
  10. hoises
  11. hoish

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