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Suzhou, a city in southern Jiangsu province in China, whence:
A county of imperial and Republican China around Suzhou.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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Suzhou, a city in southern Jiangsu province in China, whence:
A commandery of imperial China around Suzhou.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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A historic and cultural region of China around the mouth of the Yangtze River, whence:
The family of Chinese languages spoken in that region, including Shanghainese and Suzhounese, the second-most spoken family after Mandarin.
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A historic and cultural region of China around the mouth of the Yangtze River, whence:
The kingdom ruled by the Ji family from Wuxi and then Suzhou during the Spring and Autumn period of China's Zhou dynasty.
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Usage: historical
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A historic and cultural region of China around the mouth of the Yangtze River, whence:
A common surname from Chinese
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A historic and cultural region of China around the mouth of the Yangtze River, whence:
The kingdom ruled by the Sun family from Ezhou and Nanjing during the Three Kingdoms interregnum following China's Han dynasty.
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Usage: historical
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A historic and cultural region of China around the mouth of the Yangtze River, whence:
The kingdom ruled by Li Zitong from Yangzhou and Hangzhou during the interregnum following China's Sui dynasty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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A historic and cultural region of China around the mouth of the Yangtze River, whence:
The kingdom ruled by the Yang family from Yangzhou during the Ten Kingdoms interregnum following China's Tang dynasty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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A historic and cultural region of China around the mouth of the Yangtze River, whence:
The kingdom ruled by the Qian family from Hangzhou and Shaoxing during the Ten Kingdoms interregnum following China's Tang dynasty.
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Usage: historical
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A surname from Chinese.
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An epithet of numerous kings and emperors in Chinese history who were honored with variants of the posthumous name Wuwang or Wudi.
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Usage: historical
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A river in Guizhou, China, a tributary of the Yangtze.
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A river in Hunan, China, a tributary of the Yuan.
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Initialism of Weather Underground.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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name
Initialism of Windows Update.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Various universities:
Initialism of Washburn University.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: education
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Various universities:
Initialism of Washington University.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: education
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name
Various universities:
Initialism of Waynesburg University.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: education
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Various universities:
Initialism of Webster University.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: education
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Various universities:
Initialism of Willamette University.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: education
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Various universities:
Initialism of Winthrop University.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: education
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Various universities:
Initialism of World University.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: education
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noun
A Chinese shaman.
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Usage: historical
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noun
a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Wu dialect, Shanghai dialect
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Broader terms: Chinese
History
Romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 吳 /吴 (Wú). Doublet of O.
Romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 武 (Wǔ, “war, warrior, warlike”).
Romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 烏 /乌 (Wū or Wù, “crow, raven, black”).
Romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 巫 (Wū or Wú, “shaman, sorceror, witch”).
Romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 㵲 (Wǔ).
The romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of various other Chinese surnames: 伍 (Wǔ), 仵 (Wǔ), 鄔/邬 (Wū).
From Cantonese 胡 (wu4). Doublet of Hu.
Initialism.
From the Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin Chinese 巫 (wū, “shaman”).
Across languages
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