Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The lunar New Year as celebrated in Vietnam.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
tit .
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- noun Vietnamese
New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of thelunar calendar .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the New Year in Vietnam; observed for three days after the first full moon after January 20th
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But also on the security front, this report is going to sound -- does sound a warning about the possibility of what they call a Tet offensive before this September report by General Petraeus.
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Then they told us they won in Tet, and in one way, they were right.
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Then they told us they won in Tet, and in one way, they were right.
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We went to book our bus tickets on to Hanoi, and found out that the busses stopped running sooner than we had expected, allowing us only 24 hours in Hoi An. Bummer, but travelling in Vietnam during Tet is like trying to get around Latin America during Semana Santa.
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And while the top 40 stuff has sorta been used to death (thanks to Kanye and Cam'ron), I think Four Tet is really up to something here.
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And while the top 40 stuff has sorta been used to death (thanks to Kanye and Cam'ron), I think Four Tet is really up to something here.
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In addition, back in January the North Vietnamese had launched what was called the Tet Offensive, a time when they struck—all at once—most of the major cities in South Vietnam, wreaked vast destruction and killed many thousands, both Asian and American.
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In addition, back in January the North Vietnamese had launched what was called the Tet Offensive, a time when they struck—all at once—most of the major cities in South Vietnam, wreaked vast destruction and killed many thousands, both Asian and American.
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The April 12 attack was "Tet" - like in impact in a country where every day is like "Tet" proving war there is unwinnable to everyone but Bush hard-liners yet to come around as well as being blind to see nowhere and no one in Iraq is safe.
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The April 12 attack was "Tet" - like in impact in a country where every day is like "Tet" proving war there is unwinnable to everyone but Bush hard-liners yet to come around as well as being blind to see nowhere and no one in Iraq is safe.
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