Daejeon
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 대전(大田) (Daejeon).
Pronunciation
- enPR: tīʹjǒnʹ, tǎʹjǔnʹ[1]
Proper noun
Daejeon
- 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.
Translations
a city in South Korea
See also
References
- ^ 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