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

The 1945 bombing of Nagasaki, and Hiroshima before it, brought an end to Imperial Japan’s brutal march across Asia and turned generations of Japanese against the militarism that led their country to ruin.

From The Wall Street Journal

That became, I think, a major question after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, events of mass death and destruction on an unprecedented scale for the amount of time it took.

From Salon

One of them in Nagasaki survived the 1945 atomic bomb blast and is still in working order, 117 years after it was fabricated and shipped from Scotland.

From BBC

The Chinese vessel was spotted 102 miles from the coast of Japan’s Nagasaki prefecture on Thursday, Japan’s Fisheries Agency said Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal

The boat was in Japan's exclusive economic zone off Nagasaki Prefecture in the south-west when it was intercepted and its captain arrested on Thursday, according to the country's fisheries agency.

From BBC