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Tet

Tet

9 6.6
A Vietnamese New Year festival celebrated for several days in late January or early February
  • proper noun
: Tet
  • The Tet holiday is like the Fourth of July, Christmas and New Year all rolled into one.

My cousin George Skagal died over there during the Tet Offensive.

Examples

  • It was Tet, which is the Lunar New Year.

  • I remember the days before Tet in our childhood.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • We stop to walk among flowers being sold in preparation for the upcoming Tet holiday and encounter a man and his son selling Vietnamese flags.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Bui Tung has invited my wife and me to a special Tet dinner at a local temple in Ha Noi.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Many families gather to celebrate Tet, sharing traditional meals and honoring their ancestors.

  • During Tet, Vietnamese people decorate their homes with peach blossoms and kumquat trees.

  • The streets are lively with parades and fireworks as the city welcomes the arrival of Tet each year.

Compounds

carbon tet
  • Archaic
1 9.9

A colorless liquid once used to clean things that is poisonous and now rarely used

Surface Forms

Tet main

Etymology

Tet comes from the Vietnamese name Tết Nguyên Đán, which means 'festival of the first morning' and marks the lunar New Year. That's why Tet is the time when families gather, give wishes, and welcome the new year.