Vietnamese
/ˌvɪɛtnəˈmiːz
/ /ˈvjɛtnəmiːz/adjective
Relating to Vietnam, its people, or their language.We were representing a Saturday morning Vietnamese language school....
- She also famously described US ambitions as ‘imperialist’ and advised Richard Nixon to read up on Vietnamese history.
- I, for one, have no idea whether this is appropriate in Vietnamese culture or not, nor what a bishop can and cannot permit in his own diocese.
noun (plural same)
1A native or inhabitant of Vietnam, or a person of Vietnamese descent.From the 1400s on, the Cambodians lost territory to both the Siamese and the Vietnamese....
- Thais and Vietnamese also came in large numbers and this is really where Asian Fusion cooking was born.
- They share their classrooms with Arabs, Africans and Vietnamese.
2 [mass noun] The language of Vietnam, spoken by about 60 million people. It probably belongs to the Mon-Khmer group, although much of its vocabulary is derived from Chinese.He speaks five languages, Vietnamese, French, Greek, Spanish and some other obscure language....
- This person may have married an Irish person but probably still thinks in and speaks Vietnamese.
- In addition, Cambodians have borrowed words from Thai, French, Chinese, and Vietnamese.
Rhymes
- water-target
- water taxi
- water telescope
- water therapy
- water thermometer
- water thief
- waterthrush
- water thyme
- water tick
- water tiger
- watertight
- watertight compartment
- watertightness
- water toad
- water toll
- water toothpick
- water torch
- water tortoise
- water torture
- water tower
- Watertown
- water toy
- water transport
- water treader
- water treatment