Hanoi
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- proper noun
- Matt Freidson worked as an English teacher in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 1997 and 1998.
- Hanoi, Vietnam
- the city of Hanoi
- province south of Hanoi
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Watch on YouTubeHe was a Vietnam veteran who was in the Hanoi prisons for seven years.
- He was a Vietnam veteran who was in the Hanoi prisons for seven years.
- This is living like a king in Hanoi, Vietnam.
- So I've flown from Hanoi to Yangji, which is a a city close to the border of North Korea.
- I was off the coast up at Yankee Station as a rescue swimmer while they were doing operations into Hanoi with the Navy.
- And now here he is with me going to Hanoi, you know, the details, those human details.
- He was shot down last, last flight of his first deployment to Vietnam and he was shot down, captured, putting them in the Hanoi Hilton for six years.
- I mean, he fought in three wars and then he was shot down in Vietnam, or rather he was shot at crashed and became APOW in the Hanoi Hilton.
Examples
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Artists gather at Nha San Duc, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2009 (photograph by the author).
Academic text (2011) -
To start off our trip, I had a local travel company in Hanoi arrange a train trip and hotel accommodations.
Academic text (2006) -
This is living like a king in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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We're here in Hanoi and we're going to Lao Kai, right up by the Chinese border.
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Declaring 1990 the "Year of the Tourist," Hanoi even sought to promote economic development through tourism.
Academic text (1991) -
We thank our collaborators in the National Center for Veterinary Diagnostics, Hanoi, Vietnam, for their valuable contributions to this study.
Academic text (2013) -
Phan Huyen Thu was born in 1972 in Hanoi, where she still lives.
Fiction book (2000) -
This is the voice of Vietnam, broadcasting from Hanoi, capital of Vietnam.
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This is living like a king in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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We're here in Hanoi and we're going to Lao Kai, right up by the Chinese border.
Compounds
- Offensive
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9.9
A negative nickname for Jane Fonda because she visited Hanoi during the Vietnam War
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hanoi comes from the Vietnamese phrase Hà Nội, where Hà means 'river' and Nội means 'inside'. So the name says 'inside the river', which is an easy image to remember because the city sits by the Red River.