"East Vietnamese Sea" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "By analogy with South China Sea and West Philippine Sea, which Vietnam perceives to be biased toward territorial claims by China and the Philippines, respectively, that Vietnam disputes. Compare Vietnamese Biển Đông.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the East Vietnamese Sea",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "head": "East Vietnamese Sea"
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      "expansion": "the East Vietnamese Sea",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Vietnamese English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Clark D. Neher, Southeast Asia In The New International Era, Avalon Publishing, page 12:",
          "text": "The buildup of the Chinese Navy in the South China Sea (known as the East Vietnamese Sea in Vietnam) has raised the concerns of Southeast Asian governments despite Chinese assurances that the force is entirely defensive.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, “The dimensions of flooding in the Mekong delta: A struggle in a changing climate”, in Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet, Linnaeus University, page 24:",
          "text": "The two cities of Can Tho and Chau Doc are both placed along the river, which is one of the 9 rivers that the Mekong River consists of and they culminate in the East Vietnamese Sea.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The sea to the east of Vietnam."
      ],
      "id": "en-East_Vietnamese_Sea-en-name-IjtDKRk-",
      "links": [
        [
          "Vietnam",
          "Vietnam"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Vietnam, rare) The sea to the east of Vietnam."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "East Sea"
        },
        {
          "sense": "sea to the east of Vietnam",
          "word": "South China Sea"
        },
        {
          "sense": "sea to the east of Vietnam",
          "tags": [
            "Philippines"
          ],
          "word": "West Philippine Sea"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Vietnam",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "East Vietnamese Sea"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "By analogy with South China Sea and West Philippine Sea, which Vietnam perceives to be biased toward territorial claims by China and the Philippines, respectively, that Vietnam disputes. Compare Vietnamese Biển Đông.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the East Vietnamese Sea",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "def": "1",
        "head": "East Vietnamese Sea"
      },
      "expansion": "the East Vietnamese Sea",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Vietnamese English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Clark D. Neher, Southeast Asia In The New International Era, Avalon Publishing, page 12:",
          "text": "The buildup of the Chinese Navy in the South China Sea (known as the East Vietnamese Sea in Vietnam) has raised the concerns of Southeast Asian governments despite Chinese assurances that the force is entirely defensive.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, “The dimensions of flooding in the Mekong delta: A struggle in a changing climate”, in Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet, Linnaeus University, page 24:",
          "text": "The two cities of Can Tho and Chau Doc are both placed along the river, which is one of the 9 rivers that the Mekong River consists of and they culminate in the East Vietnamese Sea.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The sea to the east of Vietnam."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Vietnam",
          "Vietnam"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Vietnam, rare) The sea to the east of Vietnam."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "East Sea"
        }
      ],
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        "Vietnam",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "sea to the east of Vietnam",
      "word": "South China Sea"
    },
    {
      "sense": "sea to the east of Vietnam",
      "tags": [
        "Philippines"
      ],
      "word": "West Philippine Sea"
    }
  ],
  "word": "East Vietnamese Sea"
}