KOREA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean name is Dae-Han-Min-Gook or Han-Gook

Synonyms:

Dae-Han-Min-Gook; Han-Gook; Korea; Korean Peninsula

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Korea"):

D.P.R.K.; Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK; North Korea (a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948)

Republic of Korea; South Korea (a republic in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948)

Domain member region:

Chino-Japanese War; Sino-Japanese War (a war between China and Japan (1894 and 1895) over the control of the Korean Peninsula; China was overwhelmingly defeated at Port Arthur)

Korean War (a war between North and South Korea; South Korea was aided by the United States and other members of the United Nations; 1950-1953)

Instance hyponyms:

Chosen (the name for Korea as a Japanese province (1910-1945))

Holonyms ("Korea" is a part of...):

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

Derivation:

Korean (of or relating to or characteristic of Korea or its people or language)

Credits

Context examples:

There are only a handful of hydrogen-powered cars in Australia, but there are tens of thousands across Japan, South Korea and Singapore.

(Cars Powered by New Fuel Type Tested in Australia, VOA)

There will only be one other, our old pal at the Korea, Jack Seward.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A few nations, including the U.S., the UK and South Korea, have banned microbeads.

(Researchers Discover Microplastics in 100 Percent of People Studied, VOA)

Light pollution is most extensive in countries like Singapore, Italy and South Korea, while Canada and Australia retain the most dark sky.

(Milky Way now hidden from a third of humanity, NOAA)

Scientists from The University of Texas at Dallas and Hanyang University in South Korea developed high-tech yarns that generate electricity when they are stretched or twisted.

(Energy-Harvesting Yarns Generate Electricity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Bangladesh, China, Haiti, India, Pakistan, North Korea and South Sudan are some of the most affected countries.

(Pollution is the World’s No. 1 Killer, VOA)

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.

(Asian, NCI Thesaurus)