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kwan

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for kwan.

Editorial note

Currently our US (Denver), Hong Kong (tsuen kwan o) and Zurich locations have working ipv6 addresses.

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Quick take

A school of Korean martial arts.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of kwan gathered in one view.

noun

A school of Korean martial arts.

noun

A surname from Chinese.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for kwan.

noun

A school of Korean martial arts.

noun

A surname from Chinese.

Example sentences

1

Currently our US (Denver), Hong Kong (tsuen kwan o) and Zurich locations have working ipv6 addresses.

2

There are other examples of benevolent dictators from history, for example Lee Kwan Yew of Singapore.

3

I would love for a young Lee Kwan Yew to run San Francisco for a year or ten.

4

I don't necessarily agree with Singapore's approach, but Lee Kwan Yew made a speech that sums it up nicely...

5

No interest in the thoughts of Lee Kwan Yew and Nelson Mandela?

6

Arts like Tae Kwan Do or Karate have gone free for all, with many belt systems and rankings thanks to bastardization via profit motive.

7

Forced labor at the kwan-li-so often involves difficult physical labor such as mining, logging, and agricultural work, all done with rudimentary tools in often dangerous and harsh conditions.

8

Tito, René, Lee Kwan Yew, Park Chung Hee.

9

Lee Kwan Yew famously thought this was true of Singapore, and judging from what he did with the place I wouldn’t argue with him.

10

In an interview from Lee Kwan Yew, he suggests that it would be better for democracy if people with children between the ages of 35 and 60 had two votes.

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> The City of London appeared quite often in Lee Kwan Yu's memoirs Interesting - was it an inspiration for Singapore's governance as a city-state?

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Lee Kwan Yew himself said that capital punishment for drug trafficking is necessary to keep his country clean, and I'll take his word over yours, or some agenda-driven soft-science academic working on studies who's never been around criminals.

Quote examples

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Hon Keung Kwan and Aimin Jiang, "Recent Advances in FIR Approximation by IIR Digital Filters", 2006 International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems 3.

2

"...and Kwan expects the human head to trend larger to accommodate a larger brain." This person has probably not seen Idiocracy...

3

“We believe Helsing is a category-defining software company that is fully aligned with our global resilience thesis – the need to modernise our most critical industries for today’s new world order”, said Paul Kwan, Managing Partner, General Catalyst.

4

'Seay said that he called an OfficeMax number Friday and that a manager at a call center refused to believe he'd been sent the letter addressed that way.' 'Then, he said, a spokeswoman for OfficeMax "acted the same way" shortly before he was interviewed by NBC-5 reporter Nesita Kwan on Friday.

Proper noun examples

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I don't know Michelle Kwan's story, She has won a couple of Olympic medals for figure skating(98 and 02).

2

I don't know Michelle Kwan's story, but of the other three they mention: Ichiro got a nice 17M/year contract.

3

He is probably referring to the fact that in 1996 she came in second in the US championships(which usually gets you on the Olympic team), but they gave Kwan's spot to Nancy Kerrigan.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use kwan in a sentence?

Currently our US (Denver), Hong Kong (tsuen kwan o) and Zurich locations have working ipv6 addresses.

What does kwan mean?

A school of Korean martial arts.

What part of speech is kwan?

kwan is commonly used as noun.