mei foo
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.06 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An area of Sham Shui Po district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Example Sentences
- "Bob and Margaret had arrived on the mission field one year before us, in 1964. Like all new missionaries, they spent their first term learning Cantonese and helping in existing churches. Then, in 1971, they learned that Mobil Oil Corporation was building a large private housing development called Mei Foo, or "Beautiful and Prosperous New Village," on the waterfront west of Kowloon. The new city would be mammoth, with a planned population of 80,000. I had found a way to start relationships in Kwun Tong by entering David College as an English teacher; Bob and Margaret took the idea of education a step further and opened their own kindergarten on the second floor of one of the buildings in Mei Foo."
- "Do you think that in France, the property developers who want to sell a new luxury development in St. Tropez are going to show images of Mei Foo Sun Chun?"
- "A recent judgment in a long-running dispute over plans to develop a site in North Point may offer hope to Mei Foo residents fighting a proposed high-rise building near their homes."
- "Residents of a housing estate in Mei Foo, Hong Kong, protest Feb. 2 against government plans to turn a nearby hotel into a coronavirus quarantine facility."
- "A Mei Foo private estate resident with an injured knee hobbled down 16 flights of stairs in the middle of the night after a blaring fire alarm, grabbing only his wallet, phone and keys, only to discover he was the sole tenant in the entire block who treated it as a real emergency."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: English