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Viet

Viet proper noun: south Vietnam, North Vietnam, or Vietnam entirely.

Proper noun

Viet

  1. (informal) South Vietnam, North Vietnam, or Vietnam entirely.
  2. (informal) The Vietnamese language.
    • Prayer […] Dear Bà Nội, please make your son not annoy me so much. Watch over us, and my mom, and Bren too. Then, remembering she didn’t know any English, I ramble through a poor Viet version.2023, Trang Thanh Tran, She is a Haunting, →ISBN
  3. Synonym of Yue.
    Synonyms:
    Yue

Noun

Viet (plural Viets)

  1. (informal) A Vietnamese person.

Adjective

Viet (comparative more Viet, superlative most Viet)

  1. (informal) Vietnamese.

Synonyms of Viet

Forms of Viet

Noun
pluralViets
Adjective
comparativemore Viet
superlativemost Viet

Origin of Viet

Borrowed from Vietnamese Việt.

Phrases with Viet

Words that rhyme with Viet

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about Viet

What does Viet mean?
Viet means south Vietnam, North Vietnam, or Vietnam entirely.
What part of speech is Viet?
Viet can be a proper noun, a noun or an adjective.

Words near Viet in the dictionary

  1. viertels
  2. Vierzon
  3. vies
  4. Viesca
  5. Viescas
  6. Viet
  7. Viet Cong
  8. Viet Minh
  9. Viet Nam
  10. Viet-Nam
  11. Viet-Namese

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Viet (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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