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Tian'anmen Square

Tian'anmen Square is the alternative spelling of Tiananmen Square.

Meaning of Tiananmen Square

Proper noun

Tiananmen Square

  1. A large plaza in Dongcheng district, Beijing, China.
    • On my return from the meeting with Dr Fry, I spent some time walking about Tiananmen Square and took some photographs. Though I had not seen any wall posters there, I did notice six large portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Hua. In the middle of Tiananmen Square there were several...1979, Govind Kelkar, China After Mao, New Delhi: USHA Publications, page 85
  2. A protest event held in the square on June 4, 1989.
    • The situation had its parallels to the one that developed in China that year: one might not be in the mood to talk with that country's leaders after Tiananmen Square, but if you really wanted to move them in the direction of democracy, and get them to restore the very rights they had trampled on...1994, Dan Quayle, Standing Firm: A Vice-Presidential Memoir, 1st edition, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 121

Questions about Tian'anmen Square

What is Tian'anmen Square the alternative spelling of?
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Words near Tian'anmen Square in the dictionary

  1. tian
  2. Tian An Men Square
  3. tian nan xing
  4. Tian Shan
  5. Tian'anmen
  6. Tian'anmen Square
  7. Tian-Shan
  8. Tiana
  9. Tiananmen
  10. Tiananmen Square
  11. Tianchi

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