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Wanxian

Syllables: Wan·xian

Wanxian proper noun: synonym of Wanzhou (formerly called Wan County).

Proper noun

Wanxian

  1. (historical) Synonym of Wanzhou (formerly called Wan County).
    • The Tiefengshan Anticline of Wanxian county, Sichuan Province, is a reversed anticline composed of Triassic and Jurassic rocks and has an axis oriented towards the NE.1999, “Geology”, in Guo Huadong, editor, Radar Remote Sensing Applications in China, Taylor & Francis, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 134, column 1
    • The bus collided around 10 am (0200 GMT) into a private car that was driving against the flow of traffic on a four-lane bridge in the city’s Wanxian area. The bus then veered, broke through the bridge fence and plunged into the Yangtze river.2018 October 28, Chen Aizhu, Li Pei, “Two dead after China bus plunges 60 meters into river: state media”, in Christopher Cushing, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 May 2023, Top News
    Synonyms:
    Wanzhou

Synonyms of Wanxian

Forms of Wanxian

alternative formWanhsien

Origin of Wanxian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 萬縣 /万县 (Wànxiàn).

Questions about Wanxian

What does Wanxian mean?
Wanxian means synonym of Wanzhou (formerly called Wan County).
What part of speech is Wanxian?
Wanxian is a proper noun.

Words near Wanxian in the dictionary

  1. wanty
  2. Wantz
  3. Wantzes
  4. wanweird
  5. wanwood
  6. Wanxian
  7. wany
  8. Wanyakyusa
  9. Wanyamwezi
  10. Wanyoro
  11. Wanyuan

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