KOREA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Korea mean? 

• KOREA (noun)
  The noun KOREA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: KOREA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KOREA (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

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

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)

 Context examples 

Provider: Pochon CHA University, Seoul, Korea.

(CH01, NCI Thesaurus)

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Korea.

(Korean, NCI Thesaurus)

Provider: Maria Biotech Co. Ltd. - Maria Infertility Hospital Medical Institute, Seoul, Korea.

(MB01, NCI Thesaurus)

A person having origins in the original peoples of Asia, but not China, India, Korea, the Philippine Islands or Vietnam.

(Other Asian, NCI Thesaurus)

Provider: MizMedi Hospital - Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

(MI01, NCI Thesaurus)

Some red seaweeds are major crops in Japan, Korea and China, where they serve as sushi wrap, among other uses.

(Red seaweeds, including those in sushi, thrive despite ancestor's loss of genes, National Science Foundation)

A country in eastern Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula, bordering the Korea Bay and the Sea of Japan, between China and South Korea.

(Korea, Democratic People's Republic of, NCI Thesaurus)

Academics in South Korea had tested the vaccine in animals and it had prevented the virus from infecting fat cells.

(Scientists Find Virus Linked to Weight Gain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The disease also has been found in South Korea, Norway and Finland.

(Study finds no chronic wasting disease transmissibility in macaques, National Institutes of Health)

Kim and researchers at Andrews University in Michigan and Kyung Hee University in South Korea focused their research on mode conversion, the way in which some EMIC waves form.

(Scientists deepen understanding of magnetic fields that surround Earth, National Science Foundation)