a person who was born in a rural or provincial area, has become knowledgeable and successful in life, and thus garnered fame in a metropolitan area

thirteen elephants

Chanchai [a Thai male given name] (skilled and victorious)

ancestor; forebear; fore father

platform; porch; extension

residue; waste

[numerical classifier for platforms, etc.]

hem of a skirt; edge of a skirt

city limit

[transcription for "charter flight"]

Chinese person; Chinese people

fisherman

Hollander, a person from Holland

to cleanse; clean

close; nearby

[ประชิด] to approach; to close in; to come or get very close to; to come nearer; to be contiguous; to come up against; to near (a place)

[ประชิด] adjoining; adjacent

Chid [a Thai given name] (close, near, touching)

[ลูกชิด] a [specific] Thai dessert

[ลูกชิด] inner seed of palm fruit

[alternate spelling of ชิมแพนซี ]

to direct

biosphere

English people's given names

village militia

Chumphon, a province in southern Thailand with a 1995 population of 432,867 (rank 57 of 76)

tomb sweeping day (of Thai families with a Chinese tradition)

[alternate spelling of เชอร์รี่ ]

to elevate; lift; raise

to take away, spirit away, cheat, steal, abscond, run away with

to manipulate, direct from behind the scene, manipulate from below, make someone act in one's behalf

bacterial infection; germs

[is] oblique

yes; I agree; correct; right; indeed; that's so

[ไม่ใช่] not; is not

is not

[alternate spelling of ไชเอน ]

[of a conspiracy] to assemble; to meet secretly

to exercise; practice

[Thai transcription of the foreign loanword] sadism

repetitiously; again and again; repeatedly