Guangdong province
- proper noun
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provincia de Guangdong
- In December 2010, I arrived in Foshan, a city in the heart of Guangdong province.
Examples
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As is the case in most of Latin America, Chinese immigrants, primarily from Guangdong province
Academic text (2007) -
California companies are snapping up Chinese companies and opening offices throughout Guangdong province.
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Major Bay Area companies are active in Guangdong province due to incentives like tax cuts and cheap land.
Synonyms
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A coastal province in southern China whose capital is Guangzhou
A province in southern China now called Guangdong
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a province named Guangdong' is directly and literally composed from the place name 'Guangdong' plus the noun 'province' (an administrative region). This proper-name + administrative-unit pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard noun composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Guangdong province comes from two Chinese parts, Guang and dong. One popular story says Guang was the name of an old region and dong means 'east', so the name once meant 'east of Guang' and it is still used for the coastal province in southern China.