What does "wong" mean?
A field or other piece of land.
Wong
/wɔŋ/ name, noun, verb, slang
name, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A field or other piece of land.
- Grammar: wong is listed as name, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: family name, last name, surname.
- Useful contrasts: first name, given name.
- Usage evidence: Chinese American actress Anna Mae Wong wanted to play the female lead in “The Good Earth,” but she did not get the role. “The reason why Anna Mae Wong wasn’t cast was because of this production law that was part of Hollywood. The industry itself put up a production law, and part of the clause was this anti-miscegenation clause that said that you could not have interracial romances on-screen,” said Yuen.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A field or other piece of land. dialectal, obsolete
- 2 In the game of pai gow, a hand in which the double-one or double-six domino is used with a nine, making the hand worth eleven points rather than the usual one.
- 3 The penis. slang
""Is it not enough that you have gifted Alia Haste Moguchi with a phallus and renamed her Faust? And proceeded to outfit him or her or it with the Goddess of Swine as consort? Vraiment, and styled the arcane spirit of We Who Have Gone Before as a slavering goat-creature with an enormous throbbing wong? Now would you have these good folk believe that the Jump Drive which propels our Void Ships from star to star consists of a goat copulating with the queen of the pig people?"
Verb
- 1 To enter a betting game, particularly blackjack, when the odds are favorable.
Proper Noun
- 1 A Chinese surname from Cantonese.
"Would Mr. Kim prefer that our biracial protagonists leave Master Wong to die? Is he ignoring the fact they save him with skills the master taught them?"
Synonyms
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first namegiven name
Example
"Chinese American actress Anna Mae Wong wanted to play the female lead in “The Good Earth,” but she did not get the role. “The reason why Anna Mae Wong wasn’t cast was because of this production law that was part of Hollywood. The industry itself put up a production law, and part of the clause was this anti-miscegenation clause that said that you could not have interracial romances on-screen,” said Yuen."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "wong"?
Common synonyms include: family name, last name, surname.
How do you use "wong" in a sentence?
Chinese American actress Anna Mae Wong wanted to play the female lead in “The Good Earth,” but she did not get the role. “The reason why Anna Mae Wong wasn’t cast was because of this production law that was part of Hollywood. The industry itself put up a production law, and part of the clause was this anti-miscegenation clause that said that you could not have interracial romances on-screen,” said Yuen.
How do you pronounce "wong"?
Pronounced /wɔŋ/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English wong, wang, from Old English wong, wang (“a flat surface, plain”), from Proto-West Germanic *wang, from Proto-Germanic *wangaz. Cognate with Danish vang.
Etymology 2
From the pen name Stanford Wong.
Etymology 3
Related to wang.
Etymology 4
From Cantonese, from Chinese: * 王 (wong⁴, “king”). Doublet of Vuong and Wang. * 黃／黄 (wong⁴, “yellow”). Doublet of Huynh and Huang. * 汪 (wong¹).