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Tet

[ tet ]

noun

  1. the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.


Tet

/ tɛt /

noun

  1. the New Year as celebrated in Vietnam during the first seven days of the first lunar month of the year
“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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Tet1

From the Vietnamese word tê´t
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Tet1

Vietnamese
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Example Sentences

The North Vietnamese Tet Offensive was launched on January 30, in the middle of the primary battle.

I was born in the year of the Tet offensive, my parents protestors, but we have learned few lessons from that conflict.

The Taliban's spring offensive began with an assault in Kandahar this week akin to the 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam.

The mirth came from imagining how he would twist the Tet Offensive, which was under way, into “progress.”

Quintet, Quintette, kwin-tet′, n. a musical composition for five voices or instruments: a company of five singers or players.

The anterior face displays the mask of Hathor over the symbol tet, which has been interpreted to mean steadfastness or stability.

Fig. 255 shows a workman fashioning a tet with a kind of hatchet or mattock, which he uses much as if it were a mallet.

Ahnkuttie nika papa yahka papa, hyas skookum tyee kopa konaway Yakima tilikum, klatawa wake siah yahka la tet.

Septet, Septette, sep-tet′, n. a work for seven voices or instruments: a company of seven musicians.

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