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NANJING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nanjing mean? 

NANJING (noun)
  The noun NANJING has 1 sense:

1. a city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930splay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


NANJING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Nanjing; Nanking

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Nanjing" 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)


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