Annam

Or A·nam

[uh-nam]

noun

1. a former kingdom and French protectorate along the E coast of French Indochina: now part of Vietnam.

Annam

/ ˈænæm, æˈnæm /

noun

1. a former kingdom (3rd century–1428), empire (1428–1884), and French protectorate (1884–1945) of E Indochina: now part of Vietnam

Example Sentences

Also in attendance were MBK fellows such as 17-year-old Daniel Annam, who traveled to Oakland from Staten Island, New York, to be honored for the work he’d done in his community.

From The Guardian

Jung Woo-sung stars as Detective Han, a conscience-plagued crooked cop in Annam City, where the mayor controls nearly every money-making enterprise, legal and not — and his political opponents manage the rest.

From Los Angeles Times

Beyond the plain rises a circle of hills formed by spurs of the mountains of Annam.

From Project Gutenberg

Korea, once a vassal state, is practically governed by Japan, while Tonking and Annam have become French colonies.

From Project Gutenberg

Ancestry and spirit-worship, underlying various kinds of Buddhism; religious sentiment weak in Annam, strong in Tibet; thinly diffused in China.

From Project Gutenberg