HONG KONG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hong Kong mean? 

• HONG KONG (noun)
  The noun HONG KONG has 1 sense:

1. formerly a Crown Colony on the coast of southern China in Guangdong province; leased by China to Britain in 1842 and returned in 1997; one of the world's leading commercial centers

  Familiarity information: HONG KONG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HONG KONG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Formerly a Crown Colony on the coast of southern China in Guangdong province; leased by China to Britain in 1842 and returned in 1997; one of the world's leading commercial centers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Holonyms ("Hong Kong" 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)

 Context examples 

A special administrative region of China, bordering the South China Sea, west of Hong Kong.

(Macau, NCI Thesaurus)

A wild-type zebrafish line that is a hybrid of the Hong Kong and AB wild-type lines.

(HK/AB Zebrafish, NCI Thesaurus)

The first case of a bird flu virus infecting a person directly, H5N1, was in Hong Kong in 1997.

(Bird Flu, NIH)

Scientists from The Chinese University of Hong Kong have also developed an atrial fibrillation-detection app, although it utilizes the phone's camera to analyze subtle changes in patients' facial skin color, which are an indicator of fluctuations in their heart rate.

(Heart-Checking App May Help Prevent Strokes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)