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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of east-central China on the Yangtze River northwest of Shanghai. An imperial capital and an early capital of the Republic of China, it was the site of a massacre by invading Japanese forces in 1937. The city is now the capital of Jiangsu province.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun a former capital of China.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun The capital of the
Jiangsu province of easternPeople's Republic of China ; a former capital of theRepublic of China .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s
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Examples
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Xinhua/Zuma Press Visitors enjoyed night scenery of the Confucius Temple in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu province, on Oct. 3.
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In the Third Pearl Springs tournament in Nanjing, China, he beat Topalov again with the same defense.
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Banana vending machines are cool and all, but in Nanjing they've got one that sells live crabs.
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A horse-racing track in Nanjing built six years ago has ended its racing days — and now is being used as a parking lot.
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Banana vending machines are cool and all, but in Nanjing they've got one that sells live crabs.
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In the Third Pearl Springs tournament in Nanjing, China, he beat Topalov again with the same defense.
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Researchers Qiang Chen and Tie Jun Cui of Southeast University in Nanjing, China created a device that partially simulates the effects (to a limited scale) of a black hole.
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Banana vending machines are cool and all, but in Nanjing they ve got one that sells live crabs.
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Banana vending machines are cool and all, but in Nanjing they've got one that sells live crabs.
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A single male in Nanjing recently posted an online message looking for a woman with whom to share his tomb after death.
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