Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A region of northeast China comprising the modern-day provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning. It was the homeland of the Manchu people who conquered China in the 1600s and was hotly contested by the Russians and the Japanese in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Chinese Communists gained control of the area in 1948.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun The historical name of a former region of north-east
China , where theQing Dynasty originated. Currently divided into regions corresponding to the historic namesInner Manchuria andOuter Manchuria . - proper noun A former
state inEast Asia ruled by theQing Dynasty , which became incorporated into the Chinese state when the Qing conquered China. - proper noun The area traditionally inhabitted by ethnic
Manchus and their predecessors, theJurchen .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a region in northeastern China
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Examples
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Japan's twenty-five years in Manchuria is an engrossing story of business achievement.
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MR. MASSEY: Canada needs no argument to show that the situation in Manchuria is one to command her active interest.
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They claim Japan staged an attack on one of its own railways in Manchuria but blamed China in order to declare war.
The Morningside Post: The Hand That Pulls the Trigger The Morningside Post 2010
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He resigned his post in Manchuria as a protest over the cruel treatment of Chinese civilians.
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They claim Japan staged an attack on one of its own railways in Manchuria but blamed China in order to declare war.
The Morningside Post: The Hand That Pulls the Trigger The Morningside Post 2010
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They claim Japan staged an attack on one of its own railways in Manchuria but blamed China in order to declare war.
The Morningside Post: The Hand That Pulls the Trigger The Morningside Post 2010
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The Soviet campaign in Manchuria was brilliantly executed.
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He resigned his post in Manchuria as a protest over the cruel treatment of Chinese civilians.
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As I said, the Soviet campaign in Manchuria was brilliantly executed.
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Manchuria is afire with labor strife because of the restructiruings.
Our Loss, China's Non-gain, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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