Phuket
Americannoun
noun
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an island and province of S Thailand, in the Andaman Sea: mainly flat; suffered badly in the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004. Area: 534 sq km (206 sq miles)
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the chief town of the island of Phuket; a popular tourist resort
Example Sentences
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Tourists celebrate as a plane lands at Phuket airport.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
There was no trace of him until 2023 when officers used specialist software to search for any possible images of him online and found a man using the name Peter Smith, in Phuket, Thailand.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025
Phuket is becoming “Little Moscow,” jokes Boon Yongsakul, vice president of the Phuket Real Estate Assn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
Krit Thepbumrung, president of the Andaman Tour Guides Assn., said that five years ago most of the hundreds of unlicensed tour guides in Phuket were Chinese.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
Maybe I should have gone to a beach in Phuket the way I was thinking I should earlier at the train station.
From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
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