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adj
Of or relating to Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), Spanish surrealist painter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A major subprovincial city of Liaoning, in northeastern China.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a port and shipbuilding center in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula; now a part of Luda
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Talien, Dairen
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Broader terms: city, metropolis, urban center, port
History
Etymology tree English Dalí Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Dalian From Dalí + -an.
Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大連 /大连 (Dàlián), ultimately from Russian Да́льний (Dálʹnij, literally “distant”). Related to the name of the bay called after a village located on the opposite side of the bay.
Across languages
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
