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Vietnam

nom proprenomcourant dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˌviːətˈnɑːm//
  • Royaume-Uni//ˌviːətˈnæm//
  • Royaume-Uni//ˌvjɛtˈnɑːm//
  • Royaume-Uni//ˌvjɛtˈnæm//

A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Capital: Hanoi.

nom propre

  1. 1

    A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Capital: Hanoi.

    But as in the case of Japan, the results of self-dealing corruption largely remain in the country rather than escaping to Swiss bank accounts as often happened with the style of 1950s era corruption seen in Vietnam or the Philippines.

  2. 2

    The Vietnam War.

    David Rabe's anti-Viet Nam play Streamers

Étymologie

Borrowed from Vietnamese Việt Nam. Extended senses come from the Vietnam War.

nom

  1. 1

    A long and protracted war or conflict in which the dominating foreign occupier is unable to secure a victory.

    another Vietnam

    the Soviet Union's Vietnam (the 1979–89 occupation of Afghanistan)

    France's Vietnam (the Algerian War or First Indochina War)

  2. 2

    argotA place that is very dangerous, especially if afflicted by violence.

    Welcome back to Vietnam, California.

    Vietnam, California, back in and on a mission.

  3. 3

    argotA situation in which one cannot win.

    Everyone was miserable, including Coppola. "It was my Vietnam," he moaned a few months later.

    Judy is the great deceiver / Judy is your Viet Nam

Formes

pluriel
Vietnams
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).