Grand Canal

Grand Canal

English

Proper noun

Grand Canal

1. A channel (in Italianː Canal Grande) in Venice, Italy. It forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city.
   • 1721, Senex, John, A New General Atlas, Containing A Geographical And Historical Account Of All The Empires, Kingdoms And Other Dominions Of The World‎, London, OCLC 422277841, page 164:

     The Buildings are generally lofty and beautiful eſpecially on the Grand Canal, over which the Bridge called Rialto exceeds all the reſt, is built of white Marble, and conſiſts of one Arch 95 foot long and 24 high.

2. Grand Canal (China)
   • 1832 June, Le Ming-che Tsing-lae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository‎, volume I, number 2, Canton, OCLC 1554371, pages 38-39:

     The Grand Canal, in Chinese Yun-ho, or ‘the Transit river,’ is of much more importance to the inland trade than either of the two great rivers of China.

   • 1965, Chu, Samuel C., Reformer in Modern China, Chang Chien, 1853-1926‎, Columbia University Press, LCCN 65-10541, OCLC 760522897, OL 14725503M, page 150:

     Now the group of forty graduates were put to work as a partial solution to the shortage,¹³ and he went ahead with the establishment of a surveying bureau at Ch’ing-chiang-p’u, where the Grand Canal crosses the former course of the Yellow River.

   • 1970, Cheng, Ying-wan, Postal Communication in China and its Modernization, 1860-1896‎, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 70-120316, OCLC 906049572, OL 5700344M, page 65:

     Couriers rode on donkeys or mules and usually covered part of the distance—between Yangchow and Chinkiang, and when the wind was favorable also between Yangchow and Ch’ing-chiang-p’u—by boat on the Grand Canal.

   • 2022 January 16 [01/14/2022], “Cultural and creative industries shine in Jining, a city rich in culture and history”, in Prodigy News, AP News‎, archived from the original on 30 May 2022:

     Jining is the most important transit hub between China’s northern and southern cultures as it sits in the middle of the significant Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Grand Canal.

Translations

canal

Chinese: Mandarin: 大運河／大运河 (zh) (Dàyùnhé) Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• “Grand Canal”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Grand Canal, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• Grand Canal at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “Grand Canal”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “Grand Canal” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.