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[ tet ] / tɛt /
nounthe Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar. Origin of TetFrom the Vietnamese word tê´t Words nearby Tettest types, testudinal, testudinate, testudo, testy, Tet, tetanic, tetaniform, tetanigenous, tetanism, tetanize Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for TetI was born in the year of the Tet offensive, my parents protestors, but we have learned few lessons from that conflict. U.S. Soldier Afghan Rampage Tears at Our National Soul, Says Former Marine|Benjamin Busch|March 16, 2012|DAILY BEAST The Taliban's spring offensive began with an assault in Kandahar this week akin to the 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam. Afghanistan's Role in Osama bin Laden Raid|Bruce Riedel|May 10, 2011|DAILY BEAST The mirth came from imagining how he would twist the Tet Offensive, which was under way, into “progress.” McNamara's Lethal Illusions|Kevin Buckley|July 6, 2009|DAILY BEAST The idea of a tte--tet breakfast with him was not now quite so agreeable as it would have been to her formerly, but she went down.
Then Tet and Dik, the half-grown boys, came trooping to see what was happening. The Forgotten Planet|Murray Leinster The amulet was the tet, which represented a portion of the body of Isis. The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians|E. A. Wallis Budge Burl spoke—fortunately without arrogance—and Dik and Tet came timorously from their hiding-places. The Forgotten Planet|Murray Leinster I'll tet you ben dollars—I mean I'll bet you ten dollars you don't do it! Frank Merriwell's Races|Burt L. Standish
British Dictionary definitions for Tet
nounthe New Year as celebrated in Vietnam during the first seven days of the first lunar month of the year Word Origin for TetVietnamese Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |