Gaoling

name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

    "On 22 January, 140 young couples held a collective marriage ceremony in Kaoling County.[…] In the struggle to expose and criticize the gang of four, the Kaoling County CCP Committee has resolved to grasp destroying the old and establishing the new, holding thrifty weddings and conducting education in late marriage as a major matter."

Noun
  1. 1
    Dated spelling of jailing. Commonwealth
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of gaol form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 高陵 (Gāolíng).

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