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Salween

[ sal-ween ]

noun

  1. a river in southeastern Asia, flowing south from southwestern China through eastern Myanmar (Burma) to the Bay of Bengal. 1,750 miles (2,815 km) long.


Salween

/ ˈsælwiːn /

noun

  1. a river in SW Asia, rising in the Tibetan Plateau and flowing east and south through SW China and Myanmar to the Gulf of Martaban. Length: 2400 km (1500 miles)
“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


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Example Sentences

The phrase "from the Salween to the sea" was invented and had some effect.

West of the Salween, the European cant about opium has penetrated.

The River Salween is the boundary on the east, and divides it from Kengtung.

Wide tracts were laid waste, and the peasantry, deserting their fields, had joined in the fights or gone across the Salween.

The poppy is largely cultivated in Yunnan and in the hilly country on the Salween.

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