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Pootoo

Pootoo proper noun: synonym of Mount Putuo (An island and mountain in Putuo district, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China).

Proper noun

Pootoo

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of Mount Putuo (An island and mountain in Putuo district, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China).
    • Pootoo.—The most lovely spot in Far Cathay is the sacred isle of Pootoo, two hundred miles from Shanghai, and sixty from Ningpo, from which latter city, in another direction overland, is reached the far-famed Snowy Valley. The route to Pootoo is among hundreds of islands, great and small, all...1886, Hampden Coit DuBose, The Dragon, Image, and Demon, London: S. W. Partridge and Co., →OCLC, pages 274–275
    • Some people in Amoy still persist in sailing about five hundred miles on old sailing junks to the Pootoo Islands off the coast of Ningpo every spring.1936, Lin Yutang, My County & My People, Singapore: Heinemann Asia, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 124
    Synonyms:
    Mount Putuo

Examples of Pootoo in a sentence

  • Pootoo is the capital of Indo-Chinese Buddhism, and its renown is as far- famed as the Chinese language is spoken or Chinese literature known.1886, Hampden Coit DuBose, The Dragon, Image, and Demon, London: S. W. Partridge and Co., →OCLC, pages 274–275:
  • They still took their breaks in places like Soochow or Hangchow or on the island called Pootoo, where the ‘trouble’ was made to seem far away.2002, Denis Way, Robert Nield, Counting House: The History of PricewaterhouseCoopers on the China Coast, PricewaterhouseCoopers, →ISBN...

Synonyms of Pootoo

Origin of Pootoo

From Chinese 普陀 (Pǔtuó).

Questions about Pootoo

What does Pootoo mean?
Pootoo means synonym of Mount Putuo (An island and mountain in Putuo district, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China).
How do you use Pootoo in a sentence?
Pootoo is the capital of Indo-Chinese Buddhism, and its renown is as far- famed as the Chinese language is spoken or Chinese literature known.
What part of speech is Pootoo?
Pootoo is a proper noun.

Words near Pootoo in the dictionary

  1. pootled along
  2. pootles
  3. pootles along
  4. pootling
  5. pootling along
  6. Pootoo
  7. poots
  8. Pootung
  9. pooty
  10. Pooty-Poot
  11. poove

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