Tet
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English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Vietnamese Tết.
Proper noun
Tet
- Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- 1981, Mimi Holtzman, TET: celebrating the Vietnamese New Year, Voices in Educational Transition, 114
- 2004, Ngọc Bích Nguyễn, Tet!: the Vietamese New Year, East Coast U.S.A. Vietnamese Pub. Consortium, 141
- 1994, Dianne M. MacMillan, Tet: Vietnamese New Year, Enslow Publishers, section 48:
- The Tet Offensive, in the Vietnam War.
Etymology 2
Noun
Tet (plural Tets)
- An ancient Egyptian symbol of the god Osiris, in form a small pillar with a number of flat sections towards the top.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 222:
- To develop the higher mind one must first lower himself to raise the serpent, or set up the Tet pillar of Osiris.
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Etymology
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Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tet f
- Têt (a river in the Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitanie, France)
Descendants
- French: Têt