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Wanzhou

Syllables: Wan·zhou

Wanzhou proper noun: a district of Chongqing, China.

Proper noun

Wanzhou

  1. A district of Chongqing, China.
    • After more than three hours in cramped vans and buses, we gave up on our hoped-for destination, a supposedly lovely town called Wanzhou, and debarked, at lunchtime, in Liangping, a gray, homely town we’d never heard of.2010 December 24, Matt Gross, “Lost in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2015, Travel
    • A statement from Wanzhou district police said the 48-year-old female passenger asked the driver to pull over after she missed her stop, but he didn’t.2018 November 2, “Woman fought with driver, causing bus to fall in China river”, in AP News, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2022
    Synonyms:
    Wanhsien, Wanxian

Synonyms of Wanzhou

Origin of Wanzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 萬州 /万州 (Wànzhōu).

Questions about Wanzhou

What does Wanzhou mean?
Wanzhou means a district of Chongqing, China.
What part of speech is Wanzhou?
Wanzhou is a proper noun.

Words near Wanzhou in the dictionary

  1. wanzed
  2. Wanzer
  3. Wanzers
  4. wanzes
  5. Wanzhi
  6. Wanzhou
  7. wanzing
  8. Wao
  9. Waorani
  10. waow
  11. wap

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