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Region of Indochina
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annam
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Word definitions for annam in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
old alternative name for Vietnam, from Chinese, literally "pacified south," the name given to the old nation of Nam Viet by the Chinese after they conquered it 111 B.C.E. From an "peace" + nan "south." It was discarded upon restoration of Viet independence ...
Usage examples of annam.
But Annam was the strongest of the strong, and nothing could escape his grip.
Weak and erratic it beat, and Annam thought his punishment had been just.
Then she looked at Annam, and the tears in her eyes were as large as ponds.
Yet Annam was no evil god, and it would not please him to loose the spawn of a wicked union on this young world.
There were also Vilmos, paramount of storm giants, Ottar, jarl of frost giants, and all the other Sons of Annam, the eternal monarchs born of Othea and destined to rule the races of giant-kind as long as Ostoria endured.
Each race of giants held dominion over one area of this vast realm, and so the Sons of Annam were scattered far and wide.
A murmur of support rustled among the Sons of Annam, for they hated the Great Glacier as they hated nothing else.
The Sons of Annam customarily drank from the Well of Health before departing Bleak Palace, since the magical waters kept the mind clear and the body free of illness.
Blinded by the raging blizzard, the Sons of Annam bellowed in surprise and began to stumble about, filling the air with crashes and grunts as they collided with each other.
If Othea emptied her cup before the Sons of Annam, the titan would stop them.
The Sons of Annam quaffed the poison down, each anxious to leave Bleak Palace as quickly as possible.
Sons of Annam lie scattered on the snowy plain, as still and lifeless as Ulutiu upon his death raft.
The Chams of Annam and Cambodia say that the goddess of good luck used to resuscitate people as fast as they died, till the sky-god, tired of her constant interference with the laws of nature, transferred her to the moon, where it is no longer in her power to bring the dead to life again.
A number of works, by Ory, Luro, Laudes, and Sylvestre, on the village community in Annam, proving that it has had there the same forms as in Germany or Russia, is mentioned in a review of these works by Jobbe-Duval, in Nouvelle Revue historique de droit francais et etranger, October and December, 1896.
After leaving Quan-zho, I remember, we stopped for water at a great island off Manzi, called Hainan, and at a harbor village on the coast of Annam in Champa, called Gai-dinh-thanh, and at an island as big as a continent, called Kalimantan.