Bangkok

[ bang-kok, bang-kok ]

noun

1. a seaport in and the capital of Thailand, in the S central part, on the Chao Phraya.
2. (lowercase) a kind of Siamese straw.
3. (lowercase) a hat woven of strands of this straw.

Bangkok

/ bæŋˈkɒk; ˈbæŋkɒk /

noun

1. the capital and chief port of Thailand, on the Chao Phraya River: became a royal city and the capital in 1782. Pop: 6 604 000 (2005 est) Thai nameKrung Thepˈkrʊŋ ˈteɪp

Bangkok

1. Capital of Thailand and largest city in the country, located in the heart of Thailand's rice-growing region near the Gulf of Thailand.

Notes

With its busy port and spectacular examples of Buddhist ( see Buddhism ) architecture, Bangkok is one of the leading cities of Southeast Asia .

Example Sentences

Growing up in Bangkok, Leela Punyaratabandhu, a cookbook author who writes on the food of Thailand, was used to seeing pork blood cakes on her dinner table.

From Washington Post

Soraj Hongladarom is a professor of philosophy at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

From MIT Technology Review

“We have not relied only on one testing technique from one laboratory,” Krit Pongpirul, a researcher and clinical epidemiologist at Bangkok’s Bumrungrad International Hospital, said in an email exchange with The Post.

From Washington Post

Bangkok’s popular Siam Paragon, Siam Discovery and Siam Center malls are all built on land leased from the Crown.

From Fortune

Over the weekend, as tens of thousands in Thailand defied a ban on gathering and turned out to protest in Bangkok and across the country, Hong Kongers responded with messages of support.

From Quartz

“Mostly people on a budget use it,” Franz Dobersberger, managing director of a Bangkok travel agency, told The Daily Beast.

From The Daily Beast

The next day, three more students were detained in Bangkok after being escorted out of a high-end cinema.

From The Daily Beast

A Bangkok theater chain subsequently canceled its planned screenings of the new film.

From The Daily Beast

So Langley decided to cut short the tour of the then-CIA station chief in Bangkok and bring him in to head up the show.

From The Daily Beast

Peoria indulges in, and mostly enjoys, just about every vice known to man or woman from New York to Baghdad to Bangkok.

From The Daily Beast

So he started doggedly southward again, stopping at Saigon and Bangkok and Singapore.

From Project Gutenberg

It is easily reached by house-boat from Bangkok in two or three days.

From Project Gutenberg

The Chinese are the beasts of burden as far as the Bangkok rickshaw is concerned.

From Project Gutenberg

This was the only foundation for the claim made by the Bangkok Government.

From Project Gutenberg

It must have resembled the stone foot of Buddha at Bangkok, Siam.

From Project Gutenberg