NAGASAKI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nagasaki mean? 

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

1. a city in southern Japan on Kyushu; a leading port and shipbuilding center; on August 9, 1945 Nagasaki became the second populated area to receive an atomic bomb

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAGASAKI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in southern Japan on Kyushu; a leading port and shipbuilding center; on August 9, 1945 Nagasaki became the second populated area to receive an atomic bomb

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

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

Kyushu (the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan; contains coal fields)

Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)