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TAIPEI
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Taipei mean?
• TAIPEI (noun)
The noun TAIPEI has 1 sense:
1. the capital of Nationalist China; located in northern Taiwan
Familiarity information: TAIPEI used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The capital of Nationalist China; located in northern Taiwan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
capital of Taiwan; Taipeh; Taipei
Instance hypernyms:
national capital (the capital city of a nation)
Holonyms ("Taipei" is a part of...):
China; Nationalist China; Republic of China; Taiwan (a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong)
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