Definitions for Chan-chan

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Chan-chan Chan Chan

Spelling: [chahn chahn]

IPA: /ˈtʃɑn ˈtʃɑn/

Chan-Chan is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in Chan-chan (-aacchhnn).

Definitions for Chan-chan

noun

1. the site of the ancient capital city of the Chimu people, near the modern city of Trujillo, Peru, characterized by large walled enclosures and houses made of unfired mud brick covered with frescoes in brilliant colors.

Examples for Chan-chan

Finding they could not carry Chan Chan by storm, the Incas at length hit upon a device which had won them many a walled city.

Gradually the vast population penned within the walls of Chan Chan absorbed all the water in the reservoir.

At one time when I was younger, he financed an archaeological expedition that explored the ruins of Chan Chan.

At last the Chimu armies, however, were forced back to the protection of the great walls of Chan Chan.

Into the ruined temples and palaces of Chan Chan and of other cities of the Chimu kingdom, they delved.