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PEI

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Overview

PEI (noun)
  The noun PEI has 1 sense:

1. United States architect (born in China in 1917)play

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


English dictionary: Word details


PEI (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

United States architect (born in China in 1917)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

I. M. Pei; Ieoh Ming Pei; Pei

Instance hypernyms:

architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))

Domain region:

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)


 Context examples 


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(Chinese Shar-Pei, NCI Thesaurus)



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