Shanghainese
Shanghainese adjective: of or pertaining to Shanghai.
Adjective
Shanghainese (comparative more Shanghainese, superlative most Shanghainese)
- Of or pertaining to Shanghai.
- Of or pertaining to Shanghai and the surrounding areas like the Lower Yangtze Delta region like parts of the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui
- The term “Shanghainese” refers to the residents of the city of Shanghai and its surrounding culture area in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) ... When asked to identify themselves, the residents of the city readily respond “Shanghaiese,” whose connotations today reflect an attitude of...1998, James Stuart Olson, An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China, Greenwood Press, published 1998, page 301
Noun
Shanghainese (plural Shanghainese)
- Inhabitant of Shanghai; person of Shanghainese descent.
- Synonyms:
- Shanghaier
Proper noun
Shanghainese
- The dialect of Wu.
- Synonyms:
- Wu
- A dialect of Wu spoken predominantly in Shanghai.
- Maybe it was because I was hearing snatches of Shanghainese and other dialects around me in the carirage, but it didn't feel like I was even in China any more.2015, Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names, →ISBN, page 156
Synonyms of Shanghainese
Forms of Shanghainese
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more Shanghainese |
| superlative | most Shanghainese |
| Noun | |
| plural | Shanghainese |
Origin of Shanghainese
From Shanghai + -n- + -ese.
Words that rhyme with Shanghainese
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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
- Pekingese
- she's
- Sinhalese
- Socrates
- tees
- Versaillese
- Viennese
- Vietnamese
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- academese
- agrees
Questions about Shanghainese
- What does Shanghainese mean?
- Shanghainese means of or pertaining to Shanghai.
- What part of speech is Shanghainese?
- Shanghainese can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
Words near Shanghainese in the dictionary
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