KOREAN PENINSULA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Korean Peninsula mean? 

• KOREAN PENINSULA (noun)
  The noun KOREAN PENINSULA 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: KOREAN PENINSULA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KOREAN PENINSULA (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 "Korean Peninsula"):

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 ("Korean Peninsula" 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)

 Context examples 

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)