Vietminh

American  

[vee-et-min, vyet-, vee-it-] / viˌɛtˈmɪn, ˌvyɛt-, ˌvi ɪt- /

Or Viet Minh

noun

1. a Vietnamese, Communist-led organization whose forces fought against the Japanese and especially against the French in Indochina: officially in existence 1941–51.

2. (used with a plural verb) the leaders, supporters, and fighters of this organization.

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Vietminh.

Vietminh British  

/ ˌvjɛtˈmɪn /

noun

1. a Vietnamese organization led by Ho Chi Minh that first fought the Japanese and then the French (1941–54) in their attempt to achieve national independence

2. a member or group of members of this organization, esp in the armed forces

3. (modifier) of or relating to this organization or to its members

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Etymology

Origin of Vietminh

< Vietnamese Việt-Minh, short for Việt-Nam Độc-Lập Đông-Minh Vietnam Independence League

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Example Sentences

Some nine hundred thousand refugees moved south, roughly two-thirds of them Catholics, while only thirty thousand people—mostly Vietminh cadres—went north.

From MSNBC • Jan. 9, 2018

The Vietminh used hit-and-run tactics to confine the French to the cities.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

The French held most major cities, but the Vietminh had widespread support in the countryside.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Things were going poorly—Vietnamese guerrillas, or Vietminh, held the upper hand—and at a strategy session in Saigon the French commander, Gen. Henri Navarre, outlined his latest plan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2010

In 1941 he was appointed general commanding Ho's Vietminh engineers, and from 1948 until two months ago was Ho's minister of industrial production.

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