Dalian
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Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大連/大连 (Dàlián), ultimately from Russian Да́льний (Dálʹnij, literally “distant”). Related to the name of the bay called after a village located on the opposite side of the bay.
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Dalian
- A major subprovincial city in Liaoning, in northeastern China.
- 2022 October 19, Alexandra Stevenson, “For Women in China’s Communist Party, It’s Lonely at the Top”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 October 2022[2]:
- In a rare interview, Ms. Sun spoke with pride about her blue collar past. “I come from a worker’s background, and I have a very deep and special feeling for organized labor,” she told the Dalian Daily.
As party secretary of Dalian, a city in northeastern China, Ms. Sun honed her political acumen.
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- Translingual: Daliansaurus
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subprovincial city in northeastern China
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- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dalian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[3], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 956, column 1
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Dalian (comparative more Dalian, superlative most Dalian)
- Of or relating to Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), Spanish surrealist painter.
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Dalian f
- Dalian (a major subprovincial city in Liaoning, in northeastern China)