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Viet.

Viet. is the abbreviation of Vietnam.

Viet. is the abbreviation of Vietnamese.

Meaning of Vietnam

Proper noun

Vietnam

  1. A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Capital: Hanoi.
    • But as in the case of Japan, the results of self-dealing corruption largely remain in the country rather than escaping to Swiss bank accounts as often happened with the style of 1950s era corruption seen in Vietnam or the Philippines.2011 August 1, Steve Clemons, “China's Internal Pluralism Is Nothing to Cheer About”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2021
  2. (US, colloquial) The Vietnam War.
    • David Rabe's anti-Viet Nam play Streamers1983 December 31, Michael Bronski, “A Sharply Focused Film”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 16
    Synonyms:
    Nam

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Meaning of Vietnamese

Proper noun

Vietnamese

  1. The Austroasiatic language spoken predominantly in Vietnam.
    • The Vietnamese I own is the one you gave me, the one whose diction and syntax reach only the second-grade level.2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 31
    Synonyms:
    Annamese, Annamite

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Questions about Viet.

What is Viet. the abbreviation of?
Viet. is the abbreviation of Vietnam.

Words near Viet. in the dictionary

  1. Viet Cong
  2. Viet Minh
  3. Viet Nam
  4. Viet-Nam
  5. Viet-Namese
  6. Viet.
  7. Vieta's formula
  8. Vietcong
  9. Vietcongs
  10. Vieth
  11. Vieths

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Viet. (page history and authors); Vietnam (page history and authors); Vietnamese (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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