GUANGZHOU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Guangzhou mean? 

• GUANGZHOU (noun)
  The noun GUANGZHOU has 1 sense:

1. a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port

  Familiarity information: GUANGZHOU used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUANGZHOU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Canton; Guangzhou; Kuangchou; Kwangchow

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Holonyms ("Guangzhou" is a part of...):

Cathay; China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)