Kwangtung

/ ˈkwæŋˈtʊŋ /

noun

1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Guangdong

Example Sentences

It begins some 50 years before Maxine Kingston was born, some 30 years before the revolution, in the Hong family compound in a peasant village in Kwangtung Province.

From New York Times

In Canton, or Kwangtung Province, the prohibition was practically complete.

From Project Gutenberg

Absent from home forty-eight hours; twenty-four consumed in travelling via Air-Line; twelve in pedestrian excursion through the Kwangtung country in China; and twelve in pecuniary negotiations and sleep at the British and American Coffee-House, Canton.

From Project Gutenberg

A little south of Kinchou lies a narrow neck of land connecting the Kwangtung promontory with the mainland.

From Project Gutenberg

And later the Kwangtung men arrive, each with a red ticket, and they too ask no questions, but just hunt up their things all properly marked, and then proceed to make themselves comfortable.

From Project Gutenberg