Definitions for hongs

hongs hong

Spelling: [hong]
IPA: /hɒŋ/

Hongs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in hongs (ghnos).

Definitions for hongs

noun

  1. (in China) a group of rooms or buildings forming a warehouse, factory, etc.
  2. one of the factories under foreign ownership formerly maintained at Canton.

Origin of hongs

1720-30; dialectal Chinese (Guangdong) hòhng, equivalent to Chinese háng row of shops

Examples for hongs

I had planned to stop in hong Kong a month on my way to Europe.

I stayed longer in hong Kong than Glenn and Ewen, and was hoping to film Snowden one more time where he was hiding out.

The games at hong Kong were interesting and largely attended.

The past two months have been a war of attrition between the hong Kong government and pro-democracy protestors.

A hong Kong hotel is not a place for a person predisposed to irritability.

Thus it was not until the 25th, and after hard steaming, that we reached hong Kong.

hong KONG—Last year, I met a Chinese graduate student on a tour of the northeastern United States before his first day at Harvard.

Of the climate of hong Kong, I have little that is favourable to report.

What convinced you to make the trip to hong Kong to first meet Snowden?

Memes that ridiculed political leaders and the hong Kong Police Force shot through fiber optic cables at light speed.

Word Value for hongs
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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