Pekingese
Pekingese proper noun: the Beijing dialect of Chinese, as distinct from standardized Mandarin.
Proper noun
Pekingese
Noun
Pekingese (plural Pekingeses or Pekingese)
Adjective
Pekingese
- of or related to Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China
Pekingese meaning in Tamil, Malay and Vietnamese
Pekingese in Tamil
- குறுநாய் வகை
Pekingese in Malay
- dog
- anjing Peking, asu Peking, Peking, anjing Beijing, asu Beijing, Beijing
Pekingese in Vietnamese
- dog
- chó Bắc Kinh, chó sư tử, phúc cẩu
Synonyms of Pekingese
Forms of Pekingese
| Proper noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Pekinese |
| alternative form | Pekingnese |
| alternative form | pekinese |
| alternative form | pekingese |
| Noun | |
| plural | Pekingeses |
| plural | Pekingese |
Origin of Pekingese
From Peking + -ese; Peking is the Postal Map romanization of Beijing.
Words formed from Pekingese
Words that rhyme with Pekingese
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- wheeze
- Cantonese
- chemise
- miner's disease
- trapeze
- Congolese
- dees
- disease
- displease
- frieze
- Japanese
- Keyes
- leese
- overseas
- pease
- please
- Portuguese
- sneeze
- tweeze
- appease
- bes
- bez
- blue cheese
- botanese
- Burmese
- expertise
- fries
- greeze
- Guyanese
- he's
- Javanese
- keys
- legalese
- Louise
- Maltese
- Ningbonese
- octopodes
- Shanghainese
- she's
- Sinhalese
- Socrates
- tees
- Versaillese
- Viennese
- Vietnamese
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- academese
- agrees
Questions about Pekingese
- What does Pekingese mean?
- Pekingese means the Beijing dialect of Chinese, as distinct from standardized Mandarin.
- What is Pekingese in Tamil?
- Pekingese in Tamil is குறுநாய் வகை. See Pekingese meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is Pekingese?
- Pekingese can be a proper noun, a noun or an adjective.
Words near Pekingese in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Pekingese (page history and authors); pekingese (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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