china

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Plural noun:

chinasChinachineychenycheneycheneachainychaneychanychayneechayneycheenie

1.
(uncountable)Synonym of porcelain, a hard white translucent ceramic made from kaolin, now (chiefly US) sometimes distinguished in reference to tableware as fine or good china.
It's a china doll.
Đồng nghĩa: porcelain
2.
(uncountable)Chinaware: porcelain tableware.
...a Present of certain very rich Pieces of China.
He set the table with china, cloth napkins, and crystal stemware.
The traditional 20th anniversary gift is china.
3.
(US, dated, uncountable)(uncountable, chiefly US, dated) Cheaper and lower-quality ceramic and ceramic tableware, distinguished from porcelain.
4.
(uncountable)Synonym of China root, the root of Smilax china (particularly) as a medicine.
Đồng nghĩa: China root
5.
(obsolete, uncountable)Synonym of cheyney: worsted or woolen stuff.
Đồng nghĩa: cheyney
6.
(countable)Synonym of China rose, in its various senses.
Đồng nghĩa: China rose
7.
(Australia, Cockney, South Africa, countable, slang)(countable, Cockney rhyming slang, Australia, South Africa) Synonym of mate (rhyme of china-plate).
All right, me old china?
Đồng nghĩa: mate
8.
(dated, uncountable)Tea from China, (particularly) varieties cured by smoking or opposed to Indian cultivars.
9.
(US, countable, obsolete)(countable, games, chiefly US, obsolete) A glazed china marble.
10.
(countable)(countable, music) A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences.

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Đồng nghĩa

porcelainChina rootcheyneyChina rosemate

Cùng gốc / liên quan

chinalikechina cabinetpseudochinabone chinabull in a china shoplike a bull in a china shopchina-bluechina-closetchina dollchina eyechina-fancierchina-glazechina-housechina-hunterchina-likechina markchina moneychina-ovenchina-paintingchina-paints

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Nguồn gốc từ

From clippings of attributive use of China, q.v., the country in East Asia. In reference to porcelain and porcelain objects, via clipping of chinaware and via this sense of Persian - in Persia and India, which influenced the pronunciation (see below). In reference to medicine, via clipping of China root. In reference to flowers, via clipping of China rose.