south vietnam

1. 1.

   a former country in southeastern Asia that existed from 1954 (after the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu) until 1975 when it was defeated and annexed by North Vietnam

   BroaderAsian country

   Part ofVietnam

Questions about south vietnam

What does south vietnam mean?

south vietnam means "a former country in southeastern Asia that existed from 1954 (after the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu) until 1975 when it was defeated and annexed by North Vietnam".

Is south vietnam a common word?

south vietnam 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.