Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of eastern China on the Grand Canal east of Nanjing.

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  • proper noun A prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province, China

Etymologies

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From Mandarin 镇江

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Examples

  • IRA: It's in Zhenjiang, which is just up the river from Shanghai.

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  • Village party chief Lu Zhenjiang fled from his neighbors during the skirmish.

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  • Pearl divided her time that winter between her daughter and her mother, pitifully weakened and skeletally thin in Zhenjiang, which was two hours away by train.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • Floods followed by famine on an almost unprecedented scale laid waste the north of the country, and for months on end vast, sluggish, menacing, unstoppable streams of refugees flowed into and around Zhenjiang.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • Each in her different way provided the kind of role model Pearl had never had before, and needed more than ever now that her own mother was preoccupied by other worries far away in Zhenjiang.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • The garden on a sloping hillside with its stream and its clumps of bamboo re-created the view from the Sydenstricker bungalow in Zhenjiang.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • Too weak to travel, Carie was waiting with her Chinese daughter and a band of friends at the station in Zhenjiang, so frail and shrunken that this time it was Pearl who barely recognized her mother.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • Cholera raged in Zhenjiang every autumn, striking with terrible speed and finality.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • In 1897 he was one of the first five missionaries to buy a building plot from the Kuling Mountain Company, set up the year before by an enterprising young English missionary-cum-businessman to market the top of a mountain that rose sheer from the stifling hot plain three hundred miles upstream of Zhenjiang.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • Even the plangent melancholy temple bell that had always given her the shivers when it sounded in the night on the hill below the house in Zhenjiang was replaced by the brisk reassuring little bell of the church a few hundred yards from her front door.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

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