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china
/ˈt͡ʃaɪnə/
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What does china mean?
noun
- Synonym of porcelain, a hard white translucent ceramic made from kaolin, now (chiefly US) sometimes distinguished in reference to tableware as fine or good china.
- Chinaware: porcelain tableware.
- Synonym of China root, the root of Smilax china (particularly) as a medicine.
More meanings (28)
noun
- Synonym of China rose, in its various senses.
- (slang) Synonym of mate (rhyme of china-plate).
- A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences.
- Alternative letter-case form of china: porcelain tableware.
- Clipping of China rose, various flowers.
- Clipping of China tea.
- (slang) Alternative form of china: a mate, a friend.
- (dated) Cheaper and lower-quality ceramic and ceramic tableware, distinguished from porcelain.
- (obsolete) Synonym of cheyney: worsted or woolen stuff.
- (dated) Tea from China, (particularly) varieties cured by smoking or opposed to Indian cultivars.
- (obsolete) A glazed china marble.
- (obsolete) A Chinese person.
- (obsolete) Alternative form of cheyney: woollen stuff; items made or filled with cheyney.
proper noun
- A cultural region and civilization in East Asia, occupying the region around the Yellow, Yangtze, and Pearl Rivers, taken as a whole under its various dynasties.
- A large country in East Asia, occupying the region around the Yellow, Yangtze, and Pearl Rivers; the People's Republic of China, since 1949.
- Synonym of mainland China.
- China in One China, asserting that there is only one de jure Chinese nation
- An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Indiana, United States.
- A town in Kennebec County, Maine, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Howell County, Missouri, United States.
- A hamlet in Delaware County, New York, United States.
- A small city in Jefferson County, Texas, United States.
- A municipality and town in Nuevo León, Mexico.
- A surname.
- A town in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
- (historical) Any of the empires occupying similar territory to that of the modern nation of China, ruled under various dynasties up through the early 20th century.
- (historical) The Republic of China prior to 1949, and sometimes after that time, particularly up through the early 1970's or so (when the People's Republic of China assumed the United Nations seat allocated to China).
- (rare) A female given name.
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IPA pronunciation
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Spots of sunshine fell on the white cloth and blue china, the bees and an occasional stray butterfly came searching for food.
These youthful and unbalanced reformers, in conjunction with older but no less ill-balanced provincial politicians, may be said to represent Young China.
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He was like the Emperor of China, who sat glorying in himself, unaware that his fairest provinces were being wrested from him.
Mrs. Cutter painted china so assiduously that even her wash-bowls and pitchers, and her husband’s shaving-mug, were covered with violets and lilies.
Let the new learning be the test of scholarship, but include the classics, history, geography and government of China in the examinations.