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Annamese

American  
[an-uh-meez, -mees] / ˌæn əˈmiz, -ˈmis /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Annam, its people, or their language.


noun

  • Annamese
    plural
  1. a native of Annam.

  2. former name of the language Vietnamese.

Annamese British  
/ ˌænəˈmiːz /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Annam

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. a former word for Vietnamese

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of Annamese

First recorded in 1820–30; Annam + -ese


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Cleverly, the Annamese took the best China had to offer—the Chinese classics, the ethics of Confucius, and Mahayana Buddhism.

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Some of the carvings there depict battles between the Khmers of ancient Cambodia and the Annamese, forebears of present-day Vietnamese.

From Time Magazine Archive

The 3,600 members of National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia still believe there may be loved ones locked in prisons hidden somewhere in the impenetrable Annamese Cordillera.

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The Vietnamese wanted to incorporate the southern province of Cochin China, because, they said, its people were mainly Annamese.

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Pauthier’s Annamese Dictionary is polyglot in a peculiar way.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

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