Usually means: Region in Vietnam, historically significant.
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  1. Tonkin: Merriam-Webster
  2. Tonkin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Tonkin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Tonkin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Tonkin, tonkin: Wordnik
  6. Tonkin: Wiktionary
  7. Tonkin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Tonkin: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Tonkin: Dictionary.com
  10. Tonkin (French protectorate), Tonkin (disambiguation), Tonkin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Tonkin: Rhymezone
  12. Tonkin: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Tonkin: Encyclopedia

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  1. Tonkin: Medical dictionary

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  1. tonkin: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Tonkin)

▸ noun:  A surname transferred from the given name.
▸ noun:  (archaic) Synonym of Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.
▸ noun:  (historical) A former kingdom in northern Vietnam.
▸ noun:  (historical) A former protectorate in northern Vietnam, a colony of France.
▸ noun:  Short for Gulf of Tonkin, a gulf in northern Vietnam. [A gulf at the northwestern portion of the South China Sea, located off the coasts of northern Vietnam (Tonkin) and South China.]
▸ noun:  Short for Gulf of Tonkin incident, a 1964 event used to increase US involvement in the Vietnamese Civil War.

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northern, annam, upper, honky, haut, northwestern, western, northwest, central, post, eastern

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Similar:
Tonquin, Tomkin, Tompkin, Tunquin, Toulmin, Tomblin, Tomalin, Tomlin, Timblin, Thompsett, more...

Types:
sedan, coupe, convertible, wagon, hatchback, mini-van, SUV, truck, more...

Phrases:
tonkin gulf, Gulf of Tonkin, tonkin gulf of, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, tonkin gulf resolution, Gulf of Tonkin incident, Phoebe Tonkin, Tonkin campaign, Ron Tonkin Field, Shanea Tonkin, Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club, more...

Adjectives:
northern, annam, upper, honky, haut, northwestern, western, northwest, central, post, eastern



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