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Swabue

/swɑːˈbwɛ/

Swabue proper noun: synonym of Shanwei: the Teochew-derived name.

Proper noun

Swabue

  1. (dated, historical) Synonym of Shanwei: the Teochew-derived name.
    • The first discovery of the ore was near Swabue in 1909; it contained 30 to 40 per cent.^([sic]) of tungsten.1924, Decennial Reports: On the Trade, Industries, etc., of the Ports Open to Foreign Commerce, and on the Condition and Development of the Treaty Port Provinces (1912–21), volumes I: Northern and...
    • British missionaries had been driven out of Swabue as early as 1925, at the beginning of the Hong Kong-Canton strike.1977, Roy Hofheinz, Jr., The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 264
    Synonyms:
    Shanwei

Examples of Swabue in a sentence

  • Up to December 13, the Italian priests in Swabue went unmolested—they had even been invited to stay on and collaborate.1985, Fernando Galbiati, P'eng P'ai and the Hai-Lu-Feng Soviet, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 317:
  • When they take him out in morning they lead him on short winding road by the sea to Swabue.2003, Dan Pinck, Journey to Peking: A Secret Agent in Wartime China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 146:

Synonyms of Swabue

Origin of Swabue

From the Postal Romanization of Teochew 汕尾 (suan³ bhuê²).

Questions about Swabue

What does Swabue mean?
Swabue means synonym of Shanwei: the Teochew-derived name.
How do you use Swabue in a sentence?
Up to December 13, the Italian priests in Swabue went unmolested—they had even been invited to stay on and collaborate.
What part of speech is Swabue?
Swabue is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Swabue?
Swabue is pronounced /swɑːˈbwɛ/.

Words near Swabue in the dictionary

  1. Swabians
  2. Swabish
  3. Swabishes
  4. swabs
  5. swabs down
  6. Swabue
  7. Swaby
  8. Swabys
  9. swachh
  10. swack
  11. swack up

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