guomindang
/ˌɡwɔ.mɪnˈdɑŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.21 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Example Sentences
- "For others, control of a province was an end in itself, a means of securing material gains and power. The most extreme case of this was Yan Xi-shan, lord of Shanxi from 1911 until the fall of the Guomindang in 1949."
- "The northern expeditionary army had reached Wuhan, and some comrades became so proud and overweening, they forgot that the Guomindang was about to assault us."
- "The delegates at this First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party resolved to fight alone, without attempting to make any alliance with Sun Yat-sen and the Guomindang."
- "On 7 January 1979 J.P. Hu, Myra Roper and I arrived in Peking chasing an opportunity to investigate the re-education methods imposed by the Chinese Communist regime on high-ranking military and administrative personnel from the pre-1949 era. An opportunity to pursue this interesting question arose when J.P. re-established contact with his father, a former Guomindang official, after 26 years of silence. His father, imprisoned soon after Liberation for his alleged counterrevolutionary activities, had participated in a programme of re-education and had finally been released at the 1975 amnesty."
- "Chen's election as president in 2000 ended over 50 years of Guomindang (KMT) rule in Taiwan."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
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Inflected Forms
the Guomindang (canonical)
GMD (alternative, abbreviation)