MANCHURIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Manchuria mean? 

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

1. a region in northeastern China

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANCHURIA (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)