Ho Chi Minh

[ hoh -chee -min ]

/ ˈhoʊ ˈtʃi ˈmɪn /

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noun

1890?–1969, North Vietnamese political leader: president of North Vietnam 1954–69.

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Words nearby Ho Chi Minh

Hobson-Jobson, Hobson's choice, Hoccleve, Hochheimer, Hochhuth, Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh Trail, hochmagandy, hock, hocket

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How to use Ho Chi Minh in a sentence

There was Carol White, a ho-hum homemaker who finds herself besieged by multiple chemical sensitivity in Safe.
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Ho, 42, admitted that he had never stepped out of sight of the government minders but he insisted that was by choice.
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All 130 employees share a similar vision and all seem very gung ho about their racy products.
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The door banged shut behind him and I heard him at the foot of the stairs roaring "Ho-ho-there-ho!"
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The men did “hold on” most powerfully; they did more, they hauled upon the rope, hand over hand, to a “Yo-heave-ho!”
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For he knew who had triggered those three today, who the Chi torpedo the cops wanted was.
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He began likewise to sing the little air, Chi rende alla meschina; and was this, thought I, merely to ridicule me?
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The sailors who had been lounging about the deck sprang up and looked eagerly across the waves, as the cheerful "Sail-ho!"
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British Dictionary definitions for Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh

/ (ˈhəʊ ˈtʃiː ˈmɪn) /

noun

original name Nguyen That Tan. 1890–1969, Vietnamese statesman; president of North Vietnam (1954–69). He headed the Vietminh (1941), which won independence for Vietnam from the French (1954)

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

Cultural definitions for Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh

[ (hoh chee min) ]

A Vietnamese revolutionary leader of the twentieth century. Ho Chi Minh led the communists of Vietnam in their efforts to drive out the forces of Japan in the 1940s (see World War II), France in the 1950s (see Dienbienphu), and the United States in the 1960s (see Vietnam War). He died in 1969.

notes for Ho Chi Minh

Saigon, the former capital of South Vietnam, was renamed Ho Chi Minh City after the communist victory there.