The national language of Cambodia, part of the Mon-Khmer language family.
Used in a Sentence
khmers
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for khmers.
Editorial note
Maybe the Khmers came up with it or maybe they got the idea from India.
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Definitions3
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Quick take
The national language of Cambodia, part of the Mon-Khmer language family.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of khmers gathered in one view.
A member of an ethnolinguistic group that constitutes most of the population of Cambodia.
An abugida used to write the Khmer language and sometimes Pali.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for khmers.
noun
The national language of Cambodia, part of the Mon-Khmer language family.
noun
A member of an ethnolinguistic group that constitutes most of the population of Cambodia.
noun
An abugida used to write the Khmer language and sometimes Pali.
Example sentences
Maybe the Khmers came up with it or maybe they got the idea from India.
The Red Khmers mass-murdered people who wore glasses, on the basis that they were intellectuals.
Besides, saying Marx brought the khmers rouges is like saying Nietzsche brought the nazis.
Well let's look into history on Red Khmers or pre-WW2 massacres of Stalin's Russia.
Communists fought the Khmer Rouge, and these Khmers were backed by the US first.
The Khmers Rouges have tried eliminating the elites, that didn't bode well for them.
Another example is Red Khmers with their policy of Year Zero.
Other defenders of the Red Khmers had even more impressive credentials.
> Besides, saying Marx brought the khmers rouges is like saying Nietzsche brought the nazis.
During that period Stalin was still hell-bent on conquering the world and subjugated dozens of nations, Mao killed tens of millions of Chinese, the Khmers murdered around 25% of Cambodia's population, millions were killed in the Vietnam war etc.
> Other defenders of the Red Khmers Are you talking about the entire Western block where in the 80 when western powers brought support to the milicia in order to piss off the Soviet Union-backed Vietnam, or what?
Quote examples
As far as I know, khmers rouges were "reactionary" marxists: for instance they refused western medicine and dubbed peasants as "old men" and city folks as "new men".
I assume he's referring to the letter he describes himself in the subsequent paragraph from, "an economist and statistician for the Cambodian Government until March 1975" who "visited refugee camps in Thailand and kept in touch with Khmers" and who relayed conversations from a "European friend who cycled around Phnom Penh for many days after its fall" and who you misleadingly describe as merely "a reader".
Proper noun examples
They supported Khmer Rouge and were responsible for the genocide that killed at least a million Khmers.
How Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge (Red Khmers, formally the Communist Party of Kampuchea per Wikipedia) killed off perhaps half their nation's people.
He rolled back his factual claims long after more evidence came in, and to this day hasn't acknowledged the misinformation he spread about the Khmers.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use khmers in a sentence?
Maybe the Khmers came up with it or maybe they got the idea from India.
What does khmers mean?
The national language of Cambodia, part of the Mon-Khmer language family.
What part of speech is khmers?
khmers is commonly used as noun.