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Tanguts

Tanguts is the plural of Tangut.

Meaning of Tangut

Noun (1)

Tangut pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A Qiangic people of mediaeval northern China.

Noun (2)

Tangut (plural Tanguts)

  1. A member of the Tangut people.
    • In 1227, from his deathbed, as his armies lay siege to the Tangut capital, he ordered every Tangut to be slaughtered. His troops carried out his orders, even though he was dead by the time of the final slaughter. So complete was the extermination that until recently the Tangut were a historical...2007 October 10, Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 111

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Questions about Tanguts

What is Tanguts the plural of?
Tanguts is the plural of Tangut.

Words near Tanguts in the dictionary

  1. Tangut
  2. Tangutan
  3. Tangutologist
  4. Tangutologists
  5. Tangutology
  6. Tanguts
  7. Tanguturi
  8. Tanguy
  9. Tanguys
  10. tangy
  11. Tangye

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