noun
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 (Freq. 4)
• Syn: ↑Korean Peninsula, ↑Dae-Han-Min-Gook, ↑Han-Gook
• Derivationally related forms: ↑Korean
• Members of this Region: ↑Chino-Japanese War, ↑Sino-Japanese War, ↑Korean War
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑peninsula
• Instance Hyponyms: ↑Chosen
• Part Holonyms: ↑Asia
• Part Meronyms: ↑North Korea, ↑Democratic People's Republic of Korea, ↑D.P.R.K., ↑DPRK, ↑South Korea, ↑Republic of Korea
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Korea [Korea] [kəˈriə] [kəˈriə]
a region of eastern Asia that forms a peninsula between the Sea of Japan/the East Sea and the Yellow Sea, now divided into the countries of North Korea and South Korea
Useful english dictionary. 2012.