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Hong Kong English

Hong Kong English noun: the form of the English language used in Hong Kong.

Noun

Hong Kong English (uncountable)

  1. The form of the English language used in Hong Kong.
    • While many students furnished their own lexical items, I also provided a list of localized lexis, based on my own Hong Kong English citation database, from which they could select items if they were having trouble finding one themselves.2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings...

Questions about Hong Kong English

What does Hong Kong English mean?
Hong Kong English means the form of the English language used in Hong Kong.
What part of speech is Hong Kong English?
Hong Kong English is a noun.

Words near Hong Kong English in the dictionary

  1. hong gan
  2. hong kan
  3. Hong Kong
  4. Hong Kong dollar
  5. Hong Kong dollars
  6. Hong Kong English
  7. Hong Kong feet
  8. Hong Kong finish
  9. Hong Kong flu
  10. Hong Kong foot
  11. Hong Kong harness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hong Kong English (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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