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Annamese

American  
[an-uh-meez, -mees] / ˌæn əˈmiz, -ˈmis /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Annam, its people, or their language.


noun

  • Annamese
    plural
  1. a native of Annam.

  2. former name of the language Vietnamese.

Annamese British  
/ ˌænəˈmiːz /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Annam

"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

adjective

  1. a former word for Vietnamese

"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

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of Annamese

First recorded in 1820–30; Annam + -ese


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Some of the carvings there depict battles between the Khmers of ancient Cambodia and the Annamese, forebears of present-day Vietnamese.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yearners after glory and national prestige -mostly nostalgic royalists -were left free to expand the French empire and carry out France's "civilizing mission" among the Annamese, Tonkinese, Tunisians, Algerians, Moroccans, Togolanders and Tahitians.

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When the Chinese withdrew in 939, the Annamese turned conquerors in their turn.

From Time Magazine Archive

Probably no man in the U. S. is as familiar as he with events in the Hedjaz or in Iraq, with the doings of Afghans or Parsees or the Annamese.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the midst of the Annamese live Cambodians and immigrant Chinese, the latter associated together according to the districts from which they come and carrying on nearly all the commerce of the country.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

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