Kwangtung

British  

/ ˈkwæŋˈtʊŋ /

noun

1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Guangdong

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Example Sentences

It begins some 50 years before Maxine Kingston was born, some 30 years before the revolution, in the Hong family compound in a peasant village in Kwangtung Province.

From New York Times

In Canton, or Kwangtung Province, the prohibition was practically complete.

From Project Gutenberg

Absent from home forty-eight hours; twenty-four consumed in travelling via Air-Line; twelve in pedestrian excursion through the Kwangtung country in China; and twelve in pecuniary negotiations and sleep at the British and American Coffee-House, Canton.

From Project Gutenberg

A little south of Kinchou lies a narrow neck of land connecting the Kwangtung promontory with the mainland.

From Project Gutenberg

And later the Kwangtung men arrive, each with a red ticket, and they too ask no questions, but just hunt up their things all properly marked, and then proceed to make themselves comfortable.

From Project Gutenberg