Nagasaki
/ˌnæɡəˈsaːki/ name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A port city, the capital and largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Kyushu, Japan, famous as the country's early modern entrepot and for its nuclear bombing on 9 August 1945 at the end of World War II.
"VINCENT: Tens of thousands killed before sundown; nobody's killed people that fast since Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
- 2 A prefecture of Japan.
Example
More examples"The devil destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 長崎(ながさき) (Nagasaki).