gansu

1. 1.

   a province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persia

   SynonymsKansuGansu province

   Broaderstate

   Part ofChinaSilk Road

   PartsLanzhou

Other forms of gansu

plural

gansus·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gansu

What does gansu mean?

gansu means "a province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persia".

How many syllables are in gansu?

gansu has 2 syllables: gan-su. The stress falls on "gan".

What is another word for gansu?

Close synonyms include Kansu, Gansu province. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gansu a common word?

gansu is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.