Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An old name for China or the Chinese Empire.
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- proper noun obsolete Empire of China
Etymologies
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Examples
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Charles Elliot seizes Hong Kong, also known as Pirate Island, from the Celestial Empire and declares himself governor ..
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Apparently Chavez is going to Mar del Plata to bury imperialism just as he buys Chinese wares, helping along the renewed Celestial Empire, by the way.
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Apparently Chavez is going to Mar del Plata to bury imperialism just as he buys Chinese wares, helping along the renewed Celestial Empire, by the way.
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Opium is smoked everywhere, at all times, by men and women, in the Celestial Empire; and, once accustomed to it, the victims cannot dispense with it, except by suffering horrible bodily contortions and agonies.
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Opium is smoked everywhere, at all times, by men and women, in the Celestial Empire; and, once accustomed to it, the victims cannot dispense with it, except by suffering horrible bodily contortions and agonies.
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Celestial Empire under the late commercial treaty, and traveled so far that he was twice arrested by local authorities.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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