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Chinatown
[ chahy-nuh-toun ]
Chinatown
/ ˈtʃaɪnəˌtaʊn /
noun
- a quarter of any city or town outside China with a predominantly Chinese population
Word History and Origins
Origin of Chinatown1
Example Sentences
Chao Chi Liu, 86, a resident of the Wah Luck House apartment building in Chinatown, learned about the clinic down the block from his building manager and was one of 150 people to get a shot.
Caston shared that one of his college pastimes was going to the movies in Chinatown.
We usually talk about the records in terms of citizenship papers, but all the newspapers were lost and all the books and all the things that were published in Chinatown.
Then, over the summer, police arrested a homeless woman for attacking a pregnant woman in Chinatown, calling her a slur and punching her in the face.
The Chinatown shop has been open for 58 years, but business has declined by 80 percent since the pandemic, Chan said.
Further along the sofa, and tranquilly silent, sat Amy Li, whose Chinatown gallery is housing Net Band Command.
“The mainstream audience saw Chinese food as scary,” says Bonnie Tsui, author of American Chinatown.
Chinatown, for instance, is a kind of smart trickery that is rewarding.
Fung Wah is the best-known Chinatown bus company—a cultural icon for those of a certain age and demographic.
Not so long ago, the Chinatown bus industry was subject to fierce price wars.
Well, somebody ought to haul him out of that hole down in—in Chinatown, or the Bowery, or wherever it is.
Their whole barbaric East, he told himself, was only a Chinatown slum on a large scale.
While still in Chinatown, passing a narrow alley, he was startled by two dark figures leaping at him from the dark.
What'll it be tonight; a ten-cent show or Chinatown once more?
I've seen Chinatown people behaving better than—than we have.
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