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Hoonan

Hoonan is the alternative form of Hunan.

Meaning of Hunan

Proper noun

Hunan

  1. A province of China, located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting. Capital: Changsha.
    • Foreign Missions.—Pursuing the Fulton pledge system of two-cents-a-week-for-Missions, our young people have contributed to the support of their representative in China, Rev. T. J. Preston. He has recently gone to our station at Chang-teh, in the Hunan Province, China.1899 May, “Report of Permanent Committee on Christian Endeavor”, in Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, volume 69, Nashville, TN, page 21a

Questions about Hoonan

What is Hoonan the alternative form of?
Hoonan is the alternative form of Hunan.

Words near Hoonan in the dictionary

  1. hoomei
  2. Hoomi
  3. hoomie
  4. hoon
  5. hoon it
  6. Hoonan
  7. hoond
  8. hoondee
  9. hoondees
  10. hoondi
  11. hoondie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hoonan (page history and authors); Hunan (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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