Siam
former name of Thailand (def. 1).
Gulf of, Thailand (def. 2).
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How to use Siam in a sentence
Yes, these days, Nazism is all the rage in the land formerly known as Siam.
Hitler is Huge in Thailand: Chicken Joints, T-Shirts, and A Govt.-Issued Propaganda Video | Marlow Stern | December 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe sought out the remnants of Siam in Thailand, and Rhodesia in Zimbabwe, and Leningrad in St. Petersburg.
Discovering Underground Labyrinths, Remote Cities, and More of the World’s Lost Places | Nina Strochlic | July 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey are found in Malabar, Siam, Bengal, and in all the countries inhabited by the elephant and rhinoceros.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de BuffonFather Tachard assures us on the contrary, that the white elephant of the king of Siam was rather small, though very old.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de BuffonSuch ought to have been the conduct of the King of Siam when the Dutch travellers affirmed to him the existence of ice.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive | John Stuart Mill
In Siam, the unusual spectacle was beheld of the simultaneous enthronement of two kings as rulers of that country.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year | Edwin EmersonThe Siamese of Siam, the kingdom of which Bankok is the capital, form but a fraction of this great stock.
The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies | Robert Gordon Latham
British Dictionary definitions for Siam
/ (saɪˈæm, ˈsaɪæm) /
the former name (until 1939 and 1945–49) of Thailand
Gulf of Siam an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina: the former name of (the Gulf of) Thailand (def. 2)
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