Vietnam Definition

vē-ĕtnäm, -năm, vēĭt-, vyĕt-
pronoun

A country in Southeast Asia, on the east coast of the Indochina Peninsula, officially named Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

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The Vietnam War.
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noun
A long war which a dominating foreign occupier of a place (the site of the war) cannot win.
Another Vietnam.
The Soviet Union's Vietnam (the 1979-89 occupation of Afghanistan)
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Noun

Singular:
Vietnam
Plural:
vietnams

Origin of Vietnam

  • The name Vietnam or Việt Nam (IPA(key): /vjə̀tnam/) is a variation of "Nam Việt" (南越; pinyin: Nányuè; literally Southern Việt), a name that can be traced back to the Trieu dynasty of the 2nd century BC. The word Việt originated as a shortened form of Bách Việt (百越; pinyin: Bǎiyuè), a word applied to a group of peoples then living in southern China and Vietnam.

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