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Chinatown

  • /ˈtʃaɪnətaʊn/ UK
  • /ˈt͡ʃaɪnəˌtaʊn/ US

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From China + town.

noun Chinatowns

  1. A district of a city or town (in a country other than China) in which there is a large concentration of Chinese residents and businesses. She grabbed his hand again and marched him under the fake Oriental archway that heralded the beginning of Chinatown.
  2. broadly, proscribed A similar district filled with East Asians and Southeast Asians.

proper noun

  1. A neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
  2. A neighborhood near Downtown Los Angeles, California, United States.
  3. A neighborhood of Oakland, California, United States.
  4. A neighborhood of Sacramento, California, United States.
  5. A neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States.
  6. A neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States.
  7. A neighborhood of San Jose, California, United States.
  8. A neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, United States.
  9. A neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States.
  10. A neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.
  11. A neighborhood of Boise, Idaho, United States.
  12. A neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
  13. A neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
  14. A neighborhood of Portland, Maine, United States,
  15. A neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States,
  16. A neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States,
  17. A neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, United States,
  18. A neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, United States,
  19. A neighborhood of New York City, New York, United States. Freud’s itinerary in the novel hews neatly to what he and his colleagues really did on their trip to the U.S.: They visited Chinatown and Central Park and the Met. They made it down to Coney Island, though Jung and Freud’s boat ride through the Tunnel of Love seems to be a Doctorowian flight of fanc
  20. A neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States, also called Old Town and Skid Row
  21. A neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: city, street, coast, shing, chinadom, county town, chinesca, dazu, chinkland, chin, kowloon city, chink-land, changning, chink land, chin-chou, chiang-chin

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noun a Chinese district outside China

Españolbarrio chino
한국어차이나타운 chainataun
日本語中華街 chūkagai, チャイナタウン chainataun
中文唐人街 tángrénjiē, 華埠 /华埠 huábù, 中國城 /中国城 zhōngguóchéng, 牛車水 /牛车水 in Singapore
PortuguêsChinatown
Françaisquartier chinois
DeutschChinatown, Chinesenstadt
Italianochinatown
Русскийкита́йский кварта́л kitájskij kvartál, чайната́ун čajnatáun
Tiếng Việtphố người Hoa, khu Hoa-kiều
العربيةحَيّ صِينِي ḥayy ṣīnī, تْشَايْنَاتَاوْن tšāynātāwn
עבריתצ׳יינהטאון chaynataun

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"Chinatown." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/chinatown. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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Chinatown. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/chinatown

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"Chinatown." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/chinatown.

BibTeX
@misc{chinatown_2026,
  title = {Chinatown},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chinatown},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}