Chinatown

[ chahy-nuh-toun ]

noun

1. the main Chinese district in any city outside China.

Chinatown

/ ˈtʃaɪnəˌtaʊn /

noun

1. a quarter of any city or town outside China with a predominantly Chinese population

Word History and Origins

Origin of Chinatown¹

China + town

Example Sentences

Further along the sofa, and tranquilly silent, sat Amy Li, whose Chinatown gallery is housing Net Band Command.

From The Daily Beast

“The mainstream audience saw Chinese food as scary,” says Bonnie Tsui, author of American Chinatown.

From The Daily Beast

Chinatown, for instance, is a kind of smart trickery that is rewarding.

From The Daily Beast

Fung Wah is the best-known Chinatown bus company—a cultural icon for those of a certain age and demographic.

From The Daily Beast

Not so long ago, the Chinatown bus industry was subject to fierce price wars.

From The Daily Beast

Well, somebody ought to haul him out of that hole down in—in Chinatown, or the Bowery, or wherever it is.

From Project Gutenberg

Their whole barbaric East, he told himself, was only a Chinatown slum on a large scale.

From Project Gutenberg

While still in Chinatown, passing a narrow alley, he was startled by two dark figures leaping at him from the dark.

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What'll it be tonight; a ten-cent show or Chinatown once more?

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I've seen Chinatown people behaving better than—than we have.

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