say it: sahy-GAHN
saigon is a noun meaning "a city in South Vietnam; formerly (as Saigon) it was the capital of French Indochina". It carries one recorded sense.
a city in South Vietnam; formerly (as Saigon) it was the capital of French Indochina
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for saigon come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.