Word.ws English Dictionary

Kaindu

Kaindu proper noun: a former province of China mentioned in The Travels of Marco Polo, believed to be Xichang.

Proper noun

Kaindu

  1. (historical) A former province of China mentioned in The Travels of Marco Polo, believed to be Xichang.
    • Ka-indu
      Province,
      ON the Weſt of Tebeth lies the Province of Kaindu ᵈ, under its own Kings, till conquered by the Khân. It contains many Cities ; the Capital is of the ſame Name, and ſtands in the Entrance of the Province. Here is a great Salt-Lake, ſtored with Fiſh, and ſo affluent in Pearls, that...1747, A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, volume IV, London: Thomas Astley, →OCLC, page 594, columns 1–2^(https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_new_and_complete_collection_of_voyages_...

Questions about Kaindu

What does Kaindu mean?
Kaindu means a former province of China mentioned in The Travels of Marco Polo, believed to be Xichang.
What part of speech is Kaindu?
Kaindu is a proper noun.

Words near Kaindu in the dictionary

  1. Kainan
  2. Kainantu language
  3. Kainantu–Goroka language
  4. kainate
  5. kainates
  6. Kaindu
  7. Kaine
  8. Kainei
  9. kainellid
  10. kainellids
  11. kainelliform

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Kaindu (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Kaindu.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/kaindu. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.