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Meaning: A province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persia Classified under: Nouns denoting spatial position Synonyms: Gansu; Gansu province; Kansu Instance hypernyms: province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation) Meronyms (parts of "Gansu"): Lanchou; Lanchow; Lanzhou (the capital city of the Chinese province of Gansu on the Yellow River) Holonyms ("Gansu" is a part of...): Silk Road (an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (4,000 miles); followed by Marco Polo in the 13th century to reach Cathay) China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world) "Heaven protects children, sailors and drunken men." (English proverb) "Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant." (Native American proverb, Kiowa) "Every person is observant to the flaws of others and blind to his own flaws." (Arabic proverb) "To make your neighbor jealous, go to bed early and get up early." (Corsican proverb)
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