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SOUTH VIETNAM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does South Vietnam mean?
• SOUTH VIETNAM (noun)
The noun SOUTH VIETNAM has 1 sense:
1. a former country in southeastern Asia that existed from 1954 (after the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu) until 1975 when it was defeated and annexed by North Vietnam
Familiarity information: SOUTH VIETNAM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A former country in southeastern Asia that existed from 1954 (after the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu) until 1975 when it was defeated and annexed by North Vietnam
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)
Holonyms ("South Vietnam" is a part of...):
Annam; Socialist Republic of Vietnam; Viet Nam; Vietnam (a communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945)
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