Vietnamese
of or relating to Vietnam or its inhabitants.
Origin of Vietnamese
1usage note For Vietnamese
Other words from Vietnamese
- an·ti-Vi·et·nam·ese, adjective, noun, plural an·ti-Vi·et·nam·ese.
- pro-Vi·et·nam·ese, adjective, noun, plural pro-Vi·et·nam·ese.
Words Nearby Vietnamese
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How to use Vietnamese in a sentence
In Vietnam, Lewis was advisor to a Vietnamese infantry unit, whose nickname for him was “Captain of Many Kilos.”
Wahlberg fled from the scene and approached a bystander, Hoa Trinh, also Vietnamese.
Mark Wahlberg’s Pardon Plea: A Look Back At His Troubling, Violent, and Racist Rap Sheet | Marlow Stern | December 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOn October 26 they were assigned to attack a power plant supplying the North Vietnamese capital, Hanoi.
He had learned Vietnamese while performing alternative military service in the Mekong Delta.
Remembering Ron Moreau: Goodbye To A War Reporting Legend | Christopher Dickey | May 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“People knew my mom was Vietnamese [so] we could have been stopped,” she says.
Remembering the Fall of Saigon and Vietnam’s Mass ‘Boat People’ Exodus | Katie Baker | April 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
There's a native restaurant there, run by a former Vietnamese.
Border, Breed Nor Birth | Dallas McCord ReynoldsThe Vietnamese food was really good, and the family who ran the restaurant greeted Kurt like an old friend.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town | Cory DoctorowFor 20 days now we and our Vietnamese allies have dropped no bombs in North Vietnam.
The North Vietnamese know that they cannot achieve their aggressive purposes by force.
Soviet-supported Vietnamese aggression in Indo-china has posed a major challenge to regional stability.
British Dictionary definitions for Vietnamese
/ (ˌvjɛtnəˈmiːz) /
of, relating to, or characteristic of Vietnam, its people, or their language
plural -ese a native or inhabitant of Vietnam
the language of Vietnam, probably related to the Mon-Khmer languages
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