Maoming

Mao·ming
M3A1O1M3I1N1G2

proper noun

A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.

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Meanings

proper noun

alternative Mao-ming

  1. A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.

    Under Maoming’s expansion proposals, the plant, in Maoming city in western Guangdong, also plans to add a 48,000-bpd hydrocracker, a 36,000-bpd hydrotreating unit and a 400,000 tonne-per-year aromatics facility, the refinery said.

    2008 July 23, Chen Aizhu, “Sinopec Maoming's expansion likely after 2010”, in Jonathan Hopfner, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 10 May 2022, Oil Report
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    On the Glorious Fourth Fr. Gauthier said good-bye to Tungchan and the two of us set off to visit the part of the mission that is in Maoming. The first village, lying up in the mountains about twenty miles from Tungchan, was Naamshaantung, where there are about thirty baptized Christians.

    1919 November [1919 July 5], “Tungchan Chronicle”, in The Field Afar, Catholic Foreign Mission Bureau of Boston, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 239, column 2

    With the arrival of Maryknoll's second group, Bishop de Guebriant enlarged their territory. He gave them the prefecture of Maoming, a large slice of country to the west of Kwangtung, including the important city of Kochow, which had no resident priest.

    1962, Raymond Kerrison, Bishop Walsh of Maryknoll, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107

    Synonyms: Mauming

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounA prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.

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Origin

  1. Mandarin茂名
  2. EnglishMaoming

From Mandarin 茂名 (Màomíng), named after Pan Maoming during the Sui dynasty.

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 茂名
  • 茂名 (mau⁶ ming⁴)city
Chinese Mandarin 茂名
  • 茂名 (Màomíng)city
Hungarian Maoming
  • Maomingcity
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APA

Maoming. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Maoming

MLA

“Maoming.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Maoming. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Maoming,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Maoming.

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