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Tonkineses

Tonkineses is the plural of Tonkinese.

Meaning of Tonkinese

Noun

Tonkinese (plural Tonkinese or Tonkineses)

  1. (in plural) A person from Tonkin.
    • The Occidental who lives in that splendid house on the Phù-Cam is married to a Tonkinese. It's more than ten years ago he brought her here. He has never had any second wives. He gave his father-in-law a teakwood coffin.1925, Cl Chivas-Baron, Three Women of Annam, page 124
  2. (countable) A domestic cat of a breed that is a cross between the Siamese and Burmese.
    • Do not consider bringing home a Tonkinese unless you have time in your life for games[…]2001, Lorraine Shelton, The Guide to Owning a Tonkinese Cat, TFH Publications, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    Tonk

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Questions about Tonkineses

What is Tonkineses the plural of?
Tonkineses is the plural of Tonkinese.

Words near Tonkineses in the dictionary

  1. Tonkin pit viper
  2. Tonkin pit vipers
  3. Tonkin toad
  4. Tonkin toads
  5. Tonkinese
  6. Tonkineses
  7. tonking
  8. Tonkins
  9. Tonkinson
  10. Tonkiss
  11. Tonkisses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tonkineses (page history and authors); Tonkinese (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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