Daejeon

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 대전(大田) (Daejeon).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: tīʹjǒnʹ, tǎʹjǔnʹ[1]

Proper noun

Daejeon

  1. A metropolitan city of South Korea.
    • 2014 February 7, Jodi Kantor, “A Look at Korea’s Culture From the Bathhouse”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 February 2014, Travel‎[3]:
      One morning in Daejeon, an unremarkable-looking city in the center of the country, I ducked into a drab office building housing a jimjilbang that seemed like a hidden water world.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Taejon”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1862, column 2

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