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Siam

[ sahy-am, sahy-am ]

noun

  1. former name of Thailand ( def 1 ).


Siam

/ ˈsaɪæm; saɪˈæm /

noun

  1. the former name (until 1939 and 1945–49) of Thailand
  2. Gulf of Siam
    an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina the former name of (the Gulf of) Thailand
“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

Yes, these days, Nazism is all the rage in the land formerly known as Siam.

He sought out the remnants of Siam in Thailand, and Rhodesia in Zimbabwe, and Leningrad in St. Petersburg.

They are found in Malabar, Siam, Bengal, and in all the countries inhabited by the elephant and rhinoceros.

Father Tachard assures us on the contrary, that the white elephant of the king of Siam was rather small, though very old.

Such ought to have been the conduct of the King of Siam when the Dutch travellers affirmed to him the existence of ice.

In Siam, the unusual spectacle was beheld of the simultaneous enthronement of two kings as rulers of that country.

The Siamese of Siam, the kingdom of which Bankok is the capital, form but a fraction of this great stock.

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