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Pekinese

Pekinese is the alternative form of Pekingese.

Meaning of Pekingese

Noun

Pekingese (plural Pekingeses or Pekingese)

  1. A small toy dog from China.
  2. (dated) Synonym of Beijinger (“person from Beijing”).
    Synonyms:
    Beijinger

See all 4 meanings of Pekingese

Forms of Pekinese

pluralPekineses
pluralPekinese

Words formed from Pekinese

Questions about Pekinese

What is Pekinese the alternative form of?
Pekinese is the alternative form of Pekingese.

Words near Pekinese in the dictionary

  1. Pekin
  2. Pekin duck
  3. Pekin ducks
  4. Pekin robin
  5. Pekin robins
  6. Pekinese
  7. Pekineses
  8. Peking
  9. Peking duck
  10. Peking Man
  11. Peking opera

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Pekinese (page history and authors); Pekingese (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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