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Zhumadian

Syllables: Zhu·ma·dian

Zhumadian proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Henan, China, formerly a prefecture.

Proper noun

Zhumadian

  1. A prefecture-level city of Henan, China, formerly a prefecture.
    • The Chumatien prefecture is 14,710 square kilometres in extent. It has 773,330 hectares of arable land, 4,000 hectares of which is. in hilly country, 66,670 in marsh, and 166,670 in plains. Its two main rivers are the Hung and the Ju, which join together at the Anhwei boundary, and flow into the...[1978 February, Rewi Alley, “The Epic of Chumatien”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 1
    • The Wuhan forces had won the battle at Chumatien (the victory Tom Mann had so boisterously celebrated) but, as those back in Wuhan subsequently found out, only at a terrible cost.[1981, Dan N. Jacobs, “Going Home”, in Borodin: Stalin's Man in China, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 272

Forms of Zhumadian

alternative formChu-ma-tien

Origin of Zhumadian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 駐馬店 /驻马店 (Zhùmǎdiàn).

Questions about Zhumadian

What does Zhumadian mean?
Zhumadian means a prefecture-level city of Henan, China, formerly a prefecture.
What part of speech is Zhumadian?
Zhumadian is a proper noun.

Words near Zhumadian in the dictionary

  1. zhuiqin
  2. Zhuji
  3. Zhuk
  4. Zhukov
  5. Zhukovsky
  6. Zhumadian
  7. Zhumulangma
  8. zhun
  9. Zhungaria
  10. Zhungharia
  11. Zhuo

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