Usually means: Capital city, known as Beijing.
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  1. peking: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Peking: Merriam-Webster
  3. Peking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Peking: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Peking: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Peking: Vocabulary.com
  7. Peking: Wordnik
  8. Peking: Wiktionary
  9. Peking: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Peking: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Peking: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Peking: Dictionary.com
  13. Peking (disambiguation), Peking (ship), Peking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Peking: Rhymezone
  15. peking: FreeDictionary.org
  16. peking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Peking: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Peking: Encyclopedia

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  1. peking: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Peking)

▸ noun:  (metonymically) The government of the People's Republic of China; the central leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.
▸ noun:  Dated form of Beijing, a direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China. [A direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China.]

Similar:
Peiping, Beijing, capital of red china, Pekin, Pequin, Pachin, Paquin, Zhongnanhai, mainland China, PR China, more...

Opposite:
New York, Washington D.C., Shanghai

Types:
Beijing, more...

Phrases:
Peking University, Peking opera, Peking Man, Peking duck, peking ducks, more...

Adjectives:
pro, moscow, modern, old, washington, anti, tientsin, hankow, day, present, imperial

Colors:
    lotus pink,     bamboo green, more...



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Similar:
Peiping, Beijing, capital of red china, Pekin, Pequin, Pachin, Paquin, Zhongnanhai, mainland China, PR China, more...

Opposite:
New York, Washington D.C., Shanghai

Types:
Beijing, more...

Phrases:
Peking University, Peking opera, Peking Man, Peking duck, peking ducks, Peking willow, 55 Days at Peking, The Mighty Peking Man, Convention of Peking, Peking Union Medical College, Peking to Paris, more...

Adjectives:
pro, moscow, modern, old, washington, anti, tientsin, hankow, day, present, imperial

Colors:
    lotus pink,     bamboo green, more...



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