Vietnamese

PluralVietnamese

1. 1
   adjective

   Belonging to or relating to Vietnam, its people, or its culture.

   The museum displayed Vietnamese textiles from the nineteenth century.

   She wrote her thesis on Vietnamese poetry of the colonial era.

2. 2
   nouncountableplural

   A person from Vietnam, or someone whose family or ancestors came from Vietnam.

   Her grandfather was a Vietnamese who emigrated in the early 1970s.

   Thousands of Vietnamese have made their home in this coastal city.

3. 3
   proper noun

   The Austroasiatic language spoken by the majority of people in Vietnam.

   She translated the short story from Vietnamese into English.

   Vietnamese is now taught in several universities across Europe.

4. 4
   noununcountable

   The traditional food and cooking of Vietnam.

   My grandmother cooks Vietnamese every Sunday, and the whole family shows up hungry.

   We ordered Vietnamese and shared every dish around the table.

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