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Yumen

Syllables: Yu·men

Yumen proper noun: a county-level city of Jiuquan, Gansu, China, formerly a county.

Proper noun

Yumen

  1. A county-level city of Jiuquan, Gansu, China, formerly a county.
    • Rich oil has been found in the vicinity of Yumen County north of the Chilien, and a new oil city has been built there.1958, Chun-heng Wang, “The Shensi-Kansu-Chinghai Region”, in A Simple Geography of China (China Knowledge Series), Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 202
    • Irrigation systems expanded agriculture, and Yü-men, in the early 1960s, was rapidly growing into a transport and petroleum centre, with refineries, by-product plants, and oil-well machinery plants.[1964, Joseph Earle Spencer, “YÜ-MEN”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 23, →OCLC, page 926B, column 1

Examples of Yumen in a sentence

  • After landing at Chiuchuan, we set out immediately up a macadamised highway to the oil municipality of Yumen situated up on the slopes of the Chilien Mountains in what was once known as Yumen County.1973, Rewi Alley, “Through the Kansu Panhandle and Down the Old Silk Road”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XII, number 6, Hong Kong: Eastern...
  • Yumen is in a high-altitude corner of the poor northwestern province of Gansu.2008 April 17, “Many of China's 'resource' towns are dying”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May...

Origin of Yumen

From Mandarin 玉門 /玉门 (Yùmén).

Questions about Yumen

What does Yumen mean?
Yumen means a county-level city of Jiuquan, Gansu, China, formerly a county.
How do you use Yumen in a sentence?
After landing at Chiuchuan, we set out immediately up a macadamised highway to the oil municipality of Yumen situated up on the slopes of the Chilien Mountains in what was once known as Yumen County.
What part of speech is Yumen?
Yumen is a proper noun.

Words near Yumen in the dictionary

  1. yumed
  2. yumeing
  3. yumekawa
  4. yumekawaii
  5. Yumeko
  6. Yumen
  7. yumes
  8. yumeship
  9. yumeshipped
  10. yumeshipper
  11. yumeshippers

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