Nagasaki

[ nah-guh-sah-kee, nag-uh-sak-ee; Japanese nah-gah-sah-kee ]

noun
  1. a seaport on W Kyushu, in SW Japan: second military use of the atomic bomb August 9, 1945.

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Nagasaki

/ (ˌnɑːɡəˈsɑːkɪ) /


noun
  1. a port in SW Japan, on W Kyushu: almost completely destroyed in 1945 by the second atomic bomb dropped on Japan by the US; shipbuilding industry. Pop: 419 901 (2002 est)

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Cultural definitions for Nagasaki

Nagasaki

[ (nah-guh-sah-kee, nag-uh-sak-ee) ]


City in southern Japan; one of Japan's leading ports and shipbuilding centers.

Notes for Nagasaki

The first Japanese port to welcome Western traders in the sixteenth century, it was the only Japanese port open to the West from 1641 to 1858.

Notes for Nagasaki

Nagasaki became the second populated area to be devastated by an atomic bomb (see also atomic bomb), on August 9, 1945. (See also Hiroshima (see also Hiroshima).)

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