baode

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
9
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/baʊ.di/
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/baʊ.di/ · /-də/ · /-deɪ/

Definition of baode

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

name

  1. A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
    “In the past, the Kuochiachuang production brigade of Paote County had to depend on the state for its supply of grain.”
    “The bronzes found at Ch'ao-tao-kou - a dagger with a decorated handle and a ram-head pommel, an ax with a tubular socket, and four knives with arched backs decorated with pommels in the form of a rattle or a ram-head knob - and at analogous sites, such as Lin-che-yü (Pao-te county, Shensi),³⁰ have contributed greatly to defining the Northern Zone as a distinct cultural complex.”
    “In 2003 in Shanxi Province, the director of the Xuanbo Joint Cokeoven Plant ordered his workers to attack a television reporter from CCTV who was investigating pollution at the plant. The reporter was rescued by a SEPA delegation that arrived shortly thereafter, which then ordered the local environmental enforcement group in Baode County to protect his right to investigate.”
    “The National Development and Reform Commission has approved Shanxi Tongde Aluminium Company's plan to build a 1 million-tonne-per-year alumina refinery in Baode county in Shanxi province in the north, a statement posted on the commission website showed. It did not provide the completion time.”

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 保德.

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