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Lan-t'ien

Lan-t'ien is the alternative form of Lantian.

Meaning of Lantian

Proper noun (1)

Lantian

  1. A county of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
    • The Homo erectus cranium, mandible and hundreds of associated lithic artifacts found in Lantian (central China) in the 1960s demonstrate that the area was important for hominin habitation during the early to middle Pleistocene.2017 April 20, Haixin Zhuo et al., “Lower Palaeolithic stone tools have been found in Lantian County, China”, in Quaternary Research, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 May 2022

Proper noun (2)

Lantian

  1. A township in Chengkou, Chongqing, China.

Origin of Lan-t'ien

From Mandarin 藍田 /蓝田 (Lántián) Wade–Giles romanization: Lan²-tʻien².

Questions about Lan-t'ien

What is Lan-t'ien the alternative form of?
Lan-t'ien is the alternative form of Lantian.

Words near Lan-t'ien in the dictionary

  1. LAN party
  2. Lan Tao
  3. Lan Tau
  4. Lan Xang
  5. Lan-chou
  6. Lan-t'ien
  7. Lan.
  8. lana
  9. lanadoxin
  10. lanafolein
  11. Lanagan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Lan-t'ien (page history and authors); Lantian (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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