vietnam   (TTS Sound)

The noun vietnam has 2 senses

• Vietnam, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Viet Nam, Annam -- (a communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945)


• Vietnam War, Vietnam -- (a prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States)