hong Meaning, Definition & Usage

Hong noun
Etymology
Chinese hang, Canton dialect hong, a mercantile house, factory.
Definitions
  1. A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage.
Hong transitive verb & intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To hang. Obs. Chaucer.

Webster 1913