Tet
pronunciation
How to pronounce Tet in British English:
UK [tet]
How to pronounce Tet in American English:
US [tɛt]
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- Noun:
- the New Year in Vietnam; observed for three days after the first full moon after January 20th
Word Origin
- Tet (n.)
- Vietnamese lunar new year, 1885, short for Tet Nguyen Dan "feast of the first day." The North Vietnamese Tet Offensive in the U.S. Vietnam War began Jan. 30, 1968.
Example
- 1. After two phone calls , she got to the kitchen to prepare a tet feast .
- 2. While the communist military gains proved fleeting , the tet offensive was arguably the most decisive battle of vietnam .
- 3. Electronics shops say that tet new-year holiday sales were down by as much as 50 % compared with last year .
- 4. That insurgents could sneak rocket-propelled grenades into the city and then fire them at the american embassy was not , mr crocker insisted , the tet offensive .
- 5. On february 10th , just before tet , the central bank devalued the currency , the dong , by 3.4 % , following a devaluation of 5.4 % in november . The aim was to entice holders of dollars to buy dong .