Chang·chow (chäng?j??) See Changzhou.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.Changchow (?t?æ??t?a?) or Ch’ang-choun1. (Placename) a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Zhangzhou2. (Placename) former spellings of ChangzhouCollins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014