Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A historical region of southeast Asia on the Gulf of Tonkin, an arm of the South China Sea, now forming most of northern Vietnam. It was part of French Indochina from 1887 to 1946.
Wiktionary
- n. A surname.
Etymologies
- From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Thomas. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The water battle became known as the Tonkin Gulf Incident.”
“Of greater significance, on 7 August the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly passed the so-called Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which enabled Johnson to employ military force as he saw fit against the Vietnamese Communists.”
“Most of the fighting took place in Northern Vietnam (the area the French referred to as Tonkin) although the conflict engulfed the entire country and also extended into the neighboring Indochinese countries of Laos and Cambodia.”
“' 'Tonkin' '' is the northernmost of the three principal regions, from French Indochina, which made up what was to become [[Vietnam]].”
“Or recall the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964, used by President Lyndon Johnson as a justification for widening the Vietnam War.”
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“I went to my first antiwar demonstration only months after the Gulf of Tonkin resolution was rammed through the Congress.”
“The Indochinese tiger, Asian elephant and endemic species like the saola, Tonkin snub-nosed monkey and Siamese crocodile are on the verge of extinction in the country.”
The Guardian: Javan rhino driven to extinction in Vietnam, conservationists say
“After U.S. destroyers were allegedly attacked by the North Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized an escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.”
“Last week in The Independent, journalist Boyd Tonkin took a peculiar twist on the notion of "banned books," composing a list of dangerous texts that might turn anybody into a censor.”
“Last week in The Independent, journalist Boyd Tonkin took a peculiar twist on the notion of "banned books," composing a list of dangerous texts that ...”
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Onk-tastic
Words containing the sound /ŏngk/.
Algonquin, Cronkite, Tonka, Tonkin, Wonka, Yonkers, bonk, bonkers, bronco, broncobuster, conk, conker and 53 more...
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