Amoy

//əˈmɔɪ//

Synonyms for "amoy" (14 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (3)

Strong matches (4)

Related words (7)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

4 relation types

More general

1 entries

Synonyms

1 entries

derived

2 entries

related to

2 entries

Translations

6 translations across 6 languages.

Powered by Wiktionary

Chinese

1 entries
  • 廈門話 /厦门话 name (a Chinese lect)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries
  • 廈門話 /厦门话 name (a Chinese lect)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 廈門話 /厦门话 name (a Chinese lect)

Hakka Chinese

1 entries
  • 廈門話 /厦门话 name (a Chinese lect)

Japanese

1 entries
  • アモイ語 name (a Chinese lect)

Korean

1 entries
  • 샤먼어 name (a Chinese lect)

Sample sentences

15 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Health workers in protective suits and masks continue to sift through evidence at the Amoy Gardens housing complex in Hong Kong.

Source: tatoeba (11045537)

Hong Kong Health Secretary Yeoh Eng-Kiong thanked the residents in Amoy Gardens for tolerating the quarantine, which will keep them housebound for at least 10 days.

Source: tatoeba (12113634)

Near the Coaſt of the Province of Fokien lie Quemuy and Eymuy : Further off at Sea, oppoſite to them, appear Formoſa and Tayowan ; the firſt by the Chineſes, who now poſſeſs it, call'd Talieukich ; but to the Eaſt, near the Province Chekiang are the Iſles Changque and Chenxan.

Source: wiktionary

Passing one or two headlands to the northeastward of this place, we reach the harbor of Amoy, as pronounced by the natives, or, as more generally pronounced Heämun. This harbor is in the southwestern corner of a considerable bay, in which are two large and many smaller islands. The largest and westernmost island, named Amoy, forms the northern limit of the harbor, which is sheltered on the east by the smaller of the two principal islands, while the mainland shelters is on the west and south. The town of Amoy is situated at the south end of the larger island, and the anchorage for ships is immediately in front of it.

Source: wiktionary

Showing 4 of 15 available sentences.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.