kuomintang
/kwoʊmɪnˈtæŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.53 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A nationalist political party founded under Sun Yat-sen in 1912 that ruled mainland China from 1928 to 1949, now one of three major parties in the Republic of China (Taiwan).
Example Sentences
- "It is generally believed that the creation of the Kuomintang will somewhat straighten out the political tangle in China caused by the multitude of parties. The Kuomintang holds itself out as the democratic party, and its support of the President will be tempered by the path his future actions take."
- "The trend of events from the founding of the Republic to the unseating of the Kuomintang members of the National Assembly in November, 1913, however, confirmed the belief held in many quarters that republicanism was not a suitable system of government for the Chinese in their present stage of political development."
- "U Nu's government was Socialist with a program of nationalization. But it had to fight for survival against almost universal disorder complicated by a Communist rebellion, a Karen rising, which was far more serious, and, in 1950, the arrival from Yünnan of General Li Mi's Kuomintang division after its rout by the Chinese Communists."
- "He drew lists of Party cadre members of both before and after forty-nine, and pored over the scant details of those entrusted with the takeover of big enterprises where technological know-how was required: in particular the Kiangnan shipyard, a massive affair from which the Kuomintang elements had repeatedly to be purged."
- "The Kuomintang Party, after capturing 62 of the 71 seats in the Dec. 3 legislative elections, has retained control of the Legislative Yuan of Taiwan, the bastion of recovery, that it has held for the past 30 years."
- "By 1927, these gangs had come to play a cardinal political role, serving as agents of the Kuomintang in dealing with unions, radicals, and other opponents of the regime."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 國民黨
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kwoʊmɪnˈtæŋ/
- British English: /kwəʊmɪnˈtæŋ/
Inflected Forms
the Kuomintang (canonical)
KMT (alternative, abbreviation)
Guomindang (alternative)
Komintang (alternative)
Kuomingtang (alternative, misspelling)