Associations to the word «Nanking»
Noun
Verb
Wiktionary
NANKING, proper noun. Alternative and older name of Nanjing.
Dictionary definition
NANKING, noun. A city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.