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Definitions

Proper Noun

1. 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. 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).

Related phrases

atomic bomb

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