Definitions for "Hmong"
a member of a south east Asian highland people
(pronounced mung) an ethnic group originally from China who migrated to the highlands of Southeast Asia in the 18th century and to the United States in the 1970s as refugees from the Vietnam War.
A dominant Laotian hill tribe, around sixty percent of whom opposed the North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao, in alliance with the Americans and Royal Lao government. After 1975 the Communists stepped up repression against the Hmong, who refused to be collectivized. Massive numbers of Hmong have been killed or driven into Thailand.