say it: vee-et-NAHM
vietnam is a noun meaning "a communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945
a prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States
Vietnam
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 vietnam 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.