Definitions for Shanghai
ˈʃæŋ haɪ, ʃæŋˈhaɪShang·ha·i

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Shanghaiverb

   the largest city of China; located in the east on the Pacific; one of the largest ports in the world

2. shanghai, impressverb

   take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship

   "The men were shanghaied after being drugged"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. shanghainoun

   A slingshot.

   Etymology: From 上海, with reference to the former practice of forcibly crewing ships heading for the Orient.

2. shanghaiverb

   To force or trick (someone) into joining a ship which is lacking a full crew.

   Etymology: From 上海, with reference to the former practice of forcibly crewing ships heading for the Orient.

3. shanghaiverb

   To abduct or coerce.

   Etymology: From 上海, with reference to the former practice of forcibly crewing ships heading for the Orient.

4. shanghaiverb

   To commandeer; appropriate; hijack

   Let's see if we can shanghai a room for a couple of hours.

   Etymology: From 上海, with reference to the former practice of forcibly crewing ships heading for the Orient.

5. Shanghainoun

   A port city in China.

   Etymology: From 上海, with reference to the former practice of forcibly crewing ships heading for the Orient.

6. Shanghainoun

   A type of long-legged chicken believed to be of Asian origin.

   Etymology: From 上海, with reference to the former practice of forcibly crewing ships heading for the Orient.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Shanghaiverb

   to intoxicate and ship (a person) as a sailor while in this condition

2. Shanghainoun

   a large and tall breed of domestic fowl

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Shanghai

   Shanghai is the largest city by population in the People's Republic of China and the largest city proper by population in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities of the PRC, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010. It is a global city, with influence in commerce, culture, finance, media, fashion, technology, and transport. It is a major financial center and the busiest container port in the world. Located in the Yangtze River Delta in East China, Shanghai sits at the mouth of the Yangtze River in the middle portion of the Chinese coast. The municipality borders the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the north, south and west, and is bounded to the east by the East China Sea. For centuries a major administrative, shipping, and trading town, Shanghai grew in importance in the 19th century due to European recognition of its favorable port location and economic potential. The city was one of several opened to foreign trade following the British victory over China in the First Opium War and the subsequent 1842 Treaty of Nanking which allowed the establishment of the Shanghai International Settlement. The city then flourished as a center of commerce between east and west, and became the undisputed financial hub of the Asia Pacific in the 1930s. However, with the Communist Party takeover of the mainland in 1949, trade was reoriented to focus on socialist countries, and the city's global influence declined. In the 1990s, the economic reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping resulted in an intense re-development of the city, aiding the return of finance and foreign investment to the city.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Shanghai

   shang-hī′, n. a long-legged hen with feathered shanks, said to have been introduced from Shanghai in China: (U.S.) a tall dandy.—v.t. (naut. ) to hocus a sailor and ship him while insensible: (U.S.) to get a person by some artifice into a jurisdiction where he can lawfully be arrested.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Shanghai

   the chief commercial city and port of China, on the Wusung, an affluent of the Yangtse-kiang, 12 m. from the coast, and 160 m. SE. of Nanking; large, densely-peopled suburbs have grown round the closely-packed and walled city, which, with its narrow, unclean streets, presents a slovenly appearance; the French and English occupy the broad-streeted and well-built suburbs in the N.; the low-lying site exposes the city to great heat in the summer, and to frequent epidemics of cholera and fever; an extensive system of canals draws down a great part of the interior produce, and swells the export trade in tea, silk, cotton, rice, sugar, &c.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. shanghai

   A seaport city of China, in the province of Kiangsu, on the river Woo-sung, one of the five ports opened for European commerce. It was captured by the British, June 19, 1842, by the Taeping rebels, September, 1853; retaken by the imperialists, 1855. The rebels were defeated near here by the English and French, allies of the emperor, March 1, 1862.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Shanghai in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Shanghai in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Shanghai in a Sentence

1. John Stephenson:

   It's a relief rally, truthfully, earnings have been decent, so that's a plus. So you've got a little bit of a pick up in some of the commodities, though not much. You had Shanghai and the Asian markets up overseas.

2. China Merchants Bank:

   CMB's Shanghai branch repeatedly urged repayment without success and so sought to use legal means.

3. Nicholas Zhu:

   For the pick-up in bad debts of credit cards, it hasn't come to the level of systematic risks, but we need to pay continuous attention to the fast growth of credit cards, and how concentrated the problem is in some of the more developed regions such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and Zhejiang where household leverage is higher than the national average.

4. James Liang:

   Of course, the bad news to China is this is not the end, and that China will continue to gravitate toward the lowest of the spectrum -- so it'll be more like Singapore and South Korea very soon, if you look at big cities in China, like Shanghai and Beijing, their fertility rate is already the lowest in the world -- at about 0.7.

5. Nico Rosberg:

   It's much more than we've seen recently, much more than Bahrain, much more than Shanghai, Malaysia, so it's really a big step in the right direction for us, it just shows that we have an awesome team at the moment, everybody's doing a fantastic job... again we won the development race this weekend, compared to Ferrari. So that's an important indication for the rest of the season.

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