Yeungkong
Yeungkong proper noun: synonym of Yangjiang: the Cantonese-derived name.
Proper noun
Yeungkong
- Synonym of Yangjiang: the Cantonese-derived name
- There is great rejoicing in Hongkong today because the American destroyer Simpson, which had been sent to Yeungkong to inquire into the safety of American missionaries there, returned with a party of priests and sisters of the Maryknoll Mission.1925 July 6, “AMERICAN WARSHIP SAVES MISSIONARIES; Takes Priests and Nuns From Yeungkong, China, in Spite of Heavy Seas.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May...
- SHORTLY after Easter in 1945, Father Larry was forced to join China’s fifty million refugees. Japanese troops threatened his part of Kwangtung Province, and he had to leave Hoingan. With Father Joseph P. Lavin, of Framingham, Massachusetts, he went first to Yeungkong, and then to Kochow.1952, Joseph G. Cosgrove, “Dead End Kids of Toishan”, in Accent on Laughter: A Life Sketch of Father Lawrence A. Conley, M.M. Maryknoll Missioner in South China, New York: McMullen Books, Inc....
- Synonyms:
- Yangjiang
Examples of Yeungkong in a sentence
- The city of Kongmoon was finally chosen over Yeungkong as mission headquarters because its location on the West River made it a better center for communications.1988, Jean-Paul Wiest, Maryknoll in China: A History, 1918-1955, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 54:
- But the robbery was no joke—the women lost a year’s supply of food for their mission in Yeungkong, in addition to all their clothing and books.1993, Penny Lernoux, Hearts on Fire: The Story of the Maryknoll Sisters, Orbis Books, published 2012, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 43:
- A little over three months later, on December 20, to be exact, the Fathers finally arrived in Yeungkong, a city in the southern Chinese province of Kwangtung.2005, Paul Lavin, Robert Lavin, “An Early History of Maryknoll”, in The Iron Man of China: An American Missionary's Story, Fitzwilliam, New...
Synonyms of Yeungkong
Origin of Yeungkong
From the Postal Romanization of Cantonese 陽江 (joeng4 gong1).
Questions about Yeungkong
- What does Yeungkong mean?
- Yeungkong means synonym of Yangjiang: the Cantonese-derived name.
- How do you use Yeungkong in a sentence?
- The city of Kongmoon was finally chosen over Yeungkong as mission headquarters because its location on the West River made it a better center for communications.
- What part of speech is Yeungkong?
- Yeungkong is a proper noun.
Words near Yeungkong in the dictionary
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