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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Vietnamese

1947 (adjective and noun), from Vietnam + -ese.

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Vietnamese may refer to:

  • Something of, from, or related to Vietnam, the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.
    • Something of, from, or related to the former country of North Vietnam
    • Something of, from, or related to the former country of South Vietnam
  • Vietnamese people, persons from Vietnam or of Vietnamese descent
    • Overseas Vietnamese, Vietnamese people living outside Vietnam in a diaspora
  • Vietnamese language
  • Vietnamese alphabet
  • Vietnamese cuisine
  • Vietnamese culture

Usage examples of "vietnamese".

Amerikan Peace Movement whose theory of justice was that the brutal Amerikan Army should move out of Southeast Asia so that the Cambodians could fertilize their fields with the bodies of Cambodians so that the Vietnamese could prey on the corpse of a decimated nation so that the Chinese could punish the Vietnamese so that the Vietnamese could drown their own Chinese in the sea.

He owned an old French Colonial in Saigon, but spent the bulk of his time at his house in Binh Khoi, one of the flower townscommunities built at the turn of the century, intended to provide privacy and comfort for well-to-do Vietnamese whose sexual preferences did not conform to communist morality.

Although the attack seemed relatively insignificant at the time, it would be the event that would soon bring the Cav and the North Vietnamese regulars together for the biggest battle yet.

Some ships from another assault company in the Cav lifted in 250 South Vietnamese Rangers.

Despite the increasing crowdedness downtown, it still felt as though there was room for everyone and everything, Vietnamese groceries next to the 1930s Federalist-style post office next to an eighteenth-century storefront housing a German deli that replaced a dry-goods store in the 1890s.

All seven rows of the bleachers were full, the audience consisting of resort workers, fishermen and their families, with a smattering of tourists, mainly backpackers, but also a group of immensely fat Russian women who had been transported from a hotel farther along the beach in cyclos pedaled by diminutive Vietnamese men.

American candidate, a valid Vietnamese nationalist whose Francophobia absolved him of any taint of colonialism and whose approval by Cardinal Spellman certified his anti-Communism.

The United States was anxious to support an anticommunist government in Laos and to cut the military supply line that the North Vietnamese ran to South Vietnam along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a complex of roads and pathways in southeastern Laos, near the Vietnam border.

The Navy sent a Marine Sigint detachment to Pleiku, where they targeted Laotian and North Vietnamese communications.

Others eavesdropped on tactical communications by both North Vietnamese and Laotian Communist forces.

Lee, in translating this, added that the feeling was common among Vietnamese, North and South, and was matched by a Cambodian contempt for Vietnamese, and exceeded by the distaste felt by Laotians for Thais, and vice versa.

The Vietnamese found the stolen TransRim data encoded on a minidisc within moments of rendering the American unconscious.

Americans at Long Moc, although the number of South Vietnamese prisoners is growing.

With their impressive suites of radios and radars, these gray and white and rusty little vessels observed and monitored everything that the carriers on Yankee Station did and reported on it to higher headquarters who, in turn, passed it on to the Vietnamese defenders.

Why, after two years, he wondered, would the circumstances of my shootdown be of interest to the North Vietnamese?