Usually means: Capital city, historically known Beijing.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pekin, Pekin: Merriam-Webster
  2. pekin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Pekin: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Pekin, pekin: Wordnik
  5. Pekin: Wiktionary
  6. pekin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. pekin: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Pekin: Dictionary.com
  9. Pekin (hotel), Pekin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. pekin: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. pekin: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Pekin: Encyclopedia

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  1. Pekin: Medical dictionary

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  1. Pekin: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Pekin)

noun:  A city, the county seat of Tazewell County, Illinois.
noun:  A hamlet in New York.
noun:  A city and village in North Dakota.
noun:  A type of patterned silk.
noun:  Obsolete form of Peking. [(metonymically) The government of the People's Republic of China; the central leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.]

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