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MANCHURIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A region in northeastern China
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Domain member region:
Chino-Japanese War; Sino-Japanese War (a war between China and Japan (1894 and 1895) over the control of the Korean Peninsula; China was overwhelmingly defeated at Port Arthur)
Port Arthur (a battle in the Chino-Japanese War (1894); Japanese captured the port and fortifications from the Chinese)
Holonyms ("Manchuria" is a part of...):
Cathay; China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)
Derivation:
Manchurian (of or relating to or characteristic of Manchuria or its people or their culture)