AMOY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Amoy mean? 

• AMOY (noun)
  The noun AMOY has 1 sense:

1. any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

  Familiarity information: AMOY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMOY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Amoy; Fukien; Fukkianese; Hokkianese; Min; Min dialect; Taiwanese

Hypernyms ("Amoy" is a kind of...):

Chinese (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)

 Context examples 

It was found in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is blue in shade instead of ruby red.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)