Kuomintang
/ˌkwəʊmɪnˈtaŋ
/(also Guomindang)
A nationalist party founded in China under Sun Yat-sen in 1912, and led by Chiang Kai-shek from 1925. It held power from 1928 until the Communist Party took power in October 1949 and subsequently formed the central administration of Taiwan.
Origin
From Chinese, 'national people's party'.
Rhymes
- laggardness
- lagged
- lagger
- lagging
- La Gioconda
- lagniappe
- lagomorph
- Lagomorpha
- lagoon
- lagoonal
- Lagos
- La Grande River
- Lagrange, Joseph Louis
- Lagrangian point
- lag screw
- sodium nitrate
- sodium nitroprusside
- sodium thiosulfate
- sodium thiosulphate
- sodium-vapour lamp
- Sodom
- sodomite
- sodomitic
- sodomitical
- sodomize