Associations to the word «Annam»

Wiktionary

ANNAM, proper noun. (history) Annam, a former colonial province of China, now part of Vietnam's present-day Tonkin
ANNAM, proper noun. (history) Annam, one of the French protectorates in Vietnam, located in Central Vietnam

Dictionary definition

ANNAM, noun. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats