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Long County

Long County proper noun: a county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.

Proper noun (1)

Long County

  1. A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
    • Lungchou had its district government at the present-day Lung-hsien in Shensi Province. The Lungchou barrier here indicated must be somewhere north of Ch’ing-shui in the present Kansu Province.[1956, Tieh-tseng Li, “Notes”, in The Historical Status of Tibet, New York: King's Crown Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 225
    • The work methods followed by the party committee of the Kukuan Commune of Lung County, Shensi Province and the party committee of Pokang District of Tsungyang County, Anhwei Province, as reported in our paper today, are worthy of being promoted.[1978 January 30 [1977 December 22], “Fully Bring Into Play the Role of This New Political Force”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 414, United States Joint Publications Research...
    Synonyms:
    Lung Hsien

Proper noun (2)

Long County

  1. One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Ludowici.

Examples of Long County in a sentence

  • “Long” is an ancient name for the area around what is now Long County in Shaanxi Province.1997, Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Early Daoist Scriptures, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 346:
  • The shift of Ze from Long County down to central Baoji in the south presents an example of a polity's relocation from the periphery to the center of this frontier.2021, Yan Sun, Many Worlds Under One Heaven: Material Culture, Identity, and Power in the Northern Frontiers of the Western Zhou, 1045–771...

Synonyms of Long County

  • Lung Hsien

Origin of Long County

Partial calque of Mandarin 隴縣 /陇县 (Lǒng Xiàn).

Named after Crawford Long.

Questions about Long County

What does Long County mean?
Long County means a county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
How do you use Long County in a sentence?
“Long” is an ancient name for the area around what is now Long County in Shaanxi Province.
What part of speech is Long County?
Long County is a proper noun.

Words near Long County in the dictionary

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