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Pekin

Pekin proper noun: a city, the county seat of Tazewell County, Illinois. Also the obsolete form of Peking.

Proper noun

Pekin

  1. A city, the county seat of Tazewell County, Illinois.
  2. A hamlet in New York.
  3. A city and village in North Dakota.

Noun

Pekin (countable and uncountable, plural Pekins)

  1. A type of patterned silk.

Also used as

Pekin is also the obsolete form of Peking.

Forms of Pekin

pluralPekins

Origin of Pekin

Compare Spanish Pekín, Portuguese Pequim, Dutch Peking, French Pékin, German Peking, Italian Pechino.

Phrases with Pekin

Questions about Pekin

What does Pekin mean?
Pekin means a city, the county seat of Tazewell County, Illinois.
What part of speech is Pekin?
Pekin can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Pekin in the dictionary

  1. pekes
  2. pekid
  3. Pekie
  4. Pekies
  5. pekilocerin
  6. Pekin
  7. Pekin duck
  8. Pekin ducks
  9. Pekin robin
  10. Pekin robins
  11. Pekinese

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