Annamese

American  

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

adjective

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

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noun

plural

Annamese

1. a native of Annam.

2. former name of the language Vietnamese.

Annamese British  

/ ˌænəˈmiːz /

adjective

1. of or relating to Annam

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adjective

1. a former word for Vietnamese

Etymology

Origin of Annamese

First recorded in 1820–30; Annam + -ese

Example Sentences

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.

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

She had her bases in Indo-China as planned�a long strip of Annamese coast on the China Sea, a hunk of Cochin China across the Gulf of Siam from Malaya and, diagonally, from Singapore.

From Time Magazine Archive

The typical Annamese dwelling is open to the gaze of the passer-by during the day; at night a sort of partition of bamboo is let down.

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