maoming
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.46 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
Example Sentences
- "On the Glorious Fourth Fr. Gauthier said good-bye to Tungchan and the two of us set off to visit the part of the mission that is in Maoming. The first village, lying up in the mountains about twenty miles from Tungchan, was Naamshaantung, where there are about thirty baptized Christians."
- "With the arrival of Maryknoll's second group, Bishop de Guebriant enlarged their territory. He gave them the prefecture of Maoming, a large slice of country to the west of Kwangtung, including the important city of Kochow, which had no resident priest."
- "Under Maoming’s expansion proposals, the plant, in Maoming city in western Guangdong, also plans to add a 48,000-bpd hydrocracker, a 36,000-bpd hydrotreating unit and a 400,000 tonne-per-year aromatics facility, the refinery said."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 茂名