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I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.
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Meaning of "Vietnam" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF VIETNAM

Vietnam  [ˌvjɛtˈnæm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VIETNAM

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Vietnam is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VIETNAM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam (i/ˌviːətˈnɑːm/, /viˌɛt-/, /-ˈnæm/, /ˌvjɛt-/; Vietnamese pronunciation: ( listen)), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV; Cộng hòa Xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam ( listen)), is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. With an estimated 90.0 million inhabitants as of 2013, it is the world's 13th-most-populous country, and the eighth-most-populous Asian country. The name Vietnam translates as "Southern Viet" (synonymous with the much older term Nam Viet); it was first officially adopted in 1802 by Emperor Gia Long, and was adopted again in 1945 with the founding of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh. The country is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east. Its capital city has been Hanoi since the reunification of North and South Vietnam in 1976. Vietnam was part of Imperial China for over a millennium, from 111 BC to 938 AD. The Vietnamese became independent from Imperial China in AD 938, following the Vietnamese victory in the Battle of Bạch Đằng River.

Definition of Vietnam in the English dictionary

The definition of Vietnam in the dictionary is a republic in SE Asia: an ancient empire, conquered by France in the 19th century; occupied by Japan when the Communist-led Vietminh began resistance operations that were continued against restored French rule after 1945. In 1954 the country was divided along the 17th parallel, establishing North Vietnam and South Vietnam, the latter becoming the independent Republic of Vietnam in 1955. From 1959 the country was dominated by war between the Communist Vietcong, supported by North Vietnam, and the South Vietnamese government; increasing numbers of US forces were brought to the aid of the South Vietnamese army until a peace agreement led to the withdrawal of US troops; further fighting led to the eventual defeat of the South Vietnamese government in March 1975 and in 1976 an elected National Assembly proclaimed the reunification of the country. Official language: Vietnamese. Religion: Buddhist majority. Currency: dong. Capital: Hanoi. Pop: 92 477 857. Area: 331 041 sq km Official name: Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VIETNAM


Anam
æˈnæm
Annam
æˈnæm
Hungnam
ˌhʊŋˈnæm
Menam
miːˈnæm
Nam
næm
Surinam
ˌsʊərɪˈnæm
Suriname
ˌsʊərɪˈnæm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VIETNAM

Vienna
Vienna International
Vienna roll
Vienna Union
Vienne
Viennese
Vientiane
vier
vies
Viet Minh
Vietcong
Vietminh
Vietnamese
Vietnamisation
Vietnamization
vieux jeu
view
view halloo
viewable
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WORDS THAT END LIKE VIETNAM

dunam
grannam
in personam
National Liberation Front of South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Putnam
Puttnam
Republic of Vietnam
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
South Vietnam
Visakhapatnam
Vishakhapatnam

Synonyms and antonyms of Vietnam in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Vietnam» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VIETNAM

Find out the translation of Vietnam to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Vietnam from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Vietnam» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

越南
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Vietnam
570 millions of speakers

English

Vietnam
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वियतनाम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فِيَتْنام
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Вьетнам
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Vietnã
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভিয়েতনাম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Vietnam
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Vietnam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vietnam
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ベトナム
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

베트남
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Vietnam
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nước Việt Nam
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வியட்நாம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

व्हिएतनाम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Vietnam
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Vietnam
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Wietnam
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

В´єтнам
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Vietnam
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Βιετνάμ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Vietnam
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Vietnam
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Vietnam
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Vietnam

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VIETNAM»

The term «Vietnam» is very widely used and occupies the 2.689 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of Vietnam
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «Vietnam».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VIETNAM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Vietnam» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Vietnam» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Vietnam

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10 QUOTES WITH «VIETNAM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Vietnam.
1
Eric Alterman
The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.
2
Lowell Bergman
What has been adjudicated and established in the wake of Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement is the ability of the press to basically write or broadcast almost anything about the government. There's very few restrictions in that way.
3
Ed Bradley
I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
4
Breyten Breytenbach
Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
5
Georgina Chapman
Belize suits me because I'm active and I like diving. I learnt when I was 18, in Thailand, and I have dived in Vietnam, which wasn't great, the Red Sea, which was incredible and reasonably priced, and then the Maldives, which is like being submerged in an aquarium.
6
Chris DeWolfe
'Flappy Bird' was one of those phenomena. If we could all build one now, we would. Probably a bunch of us are trying. Those kinds of games are interesting. Rumor has it he was making $50,000 a day just from advertising, which is great, especially given the cost of living in Vietnam.
7
Roma Downey
I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.
8
Al Feldstein
I used to say, 'Mad' takes on both sides.' We even used to rake the hippies over the coals. They were protesting the Vietnam War, but we took aspects of their culture and had fun with it. 'Mad' was wide open.
9
Howard Fineman
The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.
10
Brendan Fraser
If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VIETNAM»

Discover the use of Vietnam in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Vietnam and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
An original and groundbreaking book that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder In this strikingly original and ...
Jonathan Shay, 2010
2
America in Vietnam
Based on a variety of classified military records, Lewy provides the first systematic analysis of the course of the Vietnam War, the reasons for the failure of American strategy and tactics, and the causes of the final collapse of South ...
Guenter Lewy, 1980
3
Vietnam: A History
The Vietnam war was the most convulsive tragedy of recent times. This is its definitive history.
Stanley Karnow, 1994
4
Vietnam
In This Guide: Detailed itineraries on beaches, food, the Ho Chi Minh Highway and more Comprehensive information on everything from food and language to health and transport Full-Color chapter on the hill tribes of Vietnam
Nick Ray, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, 2010
5
Vietnam
Looks at the social life, customs, and national characteristics of Vietnam, including coverage of such topics as values, attitudes, religion, family, food, language, and social relationships.
Geoffrey Murray, 2005
6
Goodbye, Vietnam
"--Booklist. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Gloria Whelan, 2010
7
Vietnam: The Politics of Bureaucratic Socialism
Here is the first scholarly book-length analysis of Communist Vietnam's political system.
Gareth Porter, 1993
8
Vietnam: The Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's ...
Offering a controversial perspective on America's most painful war, the author proposes that Vietnam should have been fought, but with different tactics.
Michael Lind, 2002
9
The Vietnam War: A Concise International History
Hailed as a "pithy and compelling account of an intensely relevant topic" (Kirkus Reviews), this wide-ranging volume offers a superb account of a key moment in modern U.S. and world history.
Mark Atwood Lawrence, 2010
10
The Birth of Vietnam
In this volume Keith Taylor draws on both Chinese and Vietnamese sources to provide a balanced view of the early history of Vietnam.
Keith Weller Taylor, 1983

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VIETNAM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Vietnam is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Obama hosts Vietnam Communist Party leader
US President Barack Obama has held historic talks at the White House with Vietnam's Communist Party leader, Nguyen Phu Trong. It was the first such meeting ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
2
Vietnam PM: US 'committed barbarous crimes' during war
Vietnam's prime minister has spoken of "countless barbarous crimes" committed by the US during the Vietnam War. Nguyen Tan Dung was speaking at an event ... «BBC News, Apr 15»
3
Obama awards Medals of Honor to soldiers who served in Vietnam
President Obama on Monday awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration, to two soldiers who served in Vietnam, including one who ... «CBS News, Sep 14»
4
The Great South China Sea Clash: China vs. Vietnam
As Vietnam's Ambassador to Manila, Truong Trieu Duong, recently told me, “China's activities violated the high-level agreements of the two countries on ... «The National Interest Online, Aug 14»
5
Typhoon Rammasun kills 11 in Vietnam, several missing
Local media in Vietnam have showed pictures of streets and towns swamped with muddy rainwater, and esidents camping out in makeshift tents by the roadside ... «BBC News, Jul 14»
6
China Sends Top Diplomat to Begin Talks With Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam — A senior Chinese official will hold talks here on Wednesday with Vietnam about the contentious deep-sea oil rig stationed by China in ... «New York Times, Jun 14»
7
Vietnam Faces Limited Options in China Sea Dispute
HANOI— Vietnam has curbed the violent anti-China protests that swept the country after a Chinese oil rig began drilling in contested waters. But authorities have ... «Voice of America, Jun 14»
8
Vietnam Mulling New Strategies to Deter China
International media coverage of the confrontation between China and Vietnam over Beijing's placement of a mega oil rig in waters claimed by Vietnam has dried ... «the Diplomat, May 14»
9
The US Is Finally Making a Friend of Vietnam
A few years ago I traveled from Hanoi to Saigon by train during Vietnam's national holiday to commemorate the end of the “Anti-American Imperialism War. «TIME, May 14»
10
How an oil rig sparked anti-China riots in Vietnam
At issue is the positioning of an oil rig in waters claimed by both China and Vietnam. Vietnam claims the rig's presence is "illegal" while China says it has every ... «CNN, May 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Vietnam [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/vietnam>. May 2024 ».
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