Nagasaki

American  

[nah-guh-sah-kee, nag-uh-sak-ee, nah-gah-sah-kee] / ˌnɑ gəˈsɑ ki, ˌnæg əˈsæk i, ˈnɑ gɑˈsɑ ki /

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 British  

/ 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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Nagasaki Cultural  

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

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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.

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).)

Example Sentences

But then, completely unexpectedly months later, America dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

From BBC

Before the second bomb struck Nagasaki, French philosopher Albert Camus expressed his horror that even in a war defined by unprecedented, industrialized slaughter, Hiroshima stood apart.

From Salon

The mayor of Nagasaki has appealed for an end to the wars raging in the world on the 80th anniversary of the US atom bomb attack which destroyed the Japanese city.

From BBC

World War Two ended with Japan's surrender after the dropping of the bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which took place days apart.

From BBC

He was not referring, he insisted, to the “sin” of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but to pride for “intervening explicitly and heavy-handedly in the course of human history.”

From Salon