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Mao-ming

Mao-ming is the alternative form of Maoming.

Meaning of Maoming

Proper noun

Maoming

  1. A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
    • On the Glorious Fourth Fr. Gauthier said good-bye to Tungchan and the two of us set off to visit the part of the mission that is in Maoming. The first village, lying up in the mountains about twenty miles from Tungchan, was Naamshaantung, where there are about thirty baptized Christians.1919 November [1919 July 5], “Tungchan Chronicle”, in The Field Afar, Catholic Foreign Mission Bureau of Boston, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 239, column 2
    Synonyms:
    Mauming

Origin of Mao-ming

From Mandarin 茂名 (Màomíng), Wade-Giles romanization: Mao⁴-ming².

Questions about Mao-ming

What is Mao-ming the alternative form of?
Mao-ming is the alternative form of Maoming.

Words near Mao-ming in the dictionary

  1. Mao jackets
  2. mao shan wang
  3. Mao suit
  4. Mao suits
  5. Mao Zedong Thought
  6. Mao-ming
  7. Mao-p'ing
  8. Mao-Spontex
  9. Maoay
  10. MAOC
  11. maocha

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Mao-ming (page history and authors); Maoming (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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