Korea is now up and coming.
Source: tatoeba (20814)
Korea
/kəˈɹi.ə/
Synonyms for "korea" (9 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Choosing the right synonym
- Closest matches in this entry: cultural area, cultural sphere, divided korea, ethnolinguistic region, geography.
- Sentence evidence is available for korea, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
- Ranking signals come from opengloss.
Synonym selection checklist
- Match the part of speech before comparing meanings.
- Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
- Read the replacement inside the full sentence, not just beside "korea".
- Prefer the clearest word over the most unusual word when writing for speed or comprehension.
When not to replace "korea"
Keep "korea" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.
Replacement workflow
1. Preserve meaning
Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "korea" intact in the sentence you are editing.
2. Tune tone
Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.
3. Re-read context
Read the full sentence after the swap. Keep the synonym only when the sentence becomes clearer or more precise.
Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.
Final fit check
After choosing a replacement for "korea", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.
If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "korea" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
6 entriesMore specific
8 entriesKorean PeninsulaKorean artKorean cuisineKorean historyKorean languageKorean literatureNorth KoreaSouth Korea
Collocations
5 entriesKorean PeninsulaKorean WarKorean cultureNorth KoreaSouth Korea
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
3 entriesTranslations
165 translations across 132 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- Кореа name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Afrikaans
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Albanian
2 entries- Kore name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- Koreja name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Amharic
1 entries- ኮርያ name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Arabic
3 entries- كوريا name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- كُورِيَا name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- كُورْيَا name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Aragonese
2 entries- Corea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- Coreya name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Armenian
1 entries- Կորեա name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Assamese
1 entries- কোৰিয়া name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
1 entries- ܟܘܿܪܝܼܵܐ name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Asturian
1 entries- Corea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- Koreya name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Belarusian
1 entries- Карэ́я name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Bengali
1 entries- কোরিয়া name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Bikol Central
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Buginese
1 entries- ᨀᨚᨑᨗᨕ name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Bulgarian
1 entries- Коре́я name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Burmese
1 entries- ကိုရီးယား name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Carpathian Rusyn
1 entries- Коре́я name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Catalan
1 entries- Corea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Chinese
1 entries- Чощян name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Chinese Cantonese
3 entries- 朝鮮 /朝鲜 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- 韓國 /韩国 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- 高麗 /高丽 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 朝鮮 /朝鲜 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- 韓國 /韩国 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- 高麗 /高丽 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Church Slavic
1 entries- Корєꙗ name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Corsican
2 entries- Corea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- Curea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- Koreya name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Czech
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Danish
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Dari
1 entries- کورِیَا name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Dhivehi
1 entries- ކޮރެއާ name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Dutch
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Eastern Min Chinese
3 entries- 朝鮮 /朝鲜 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- 韓國 /韩国 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- 高麗 /高丽 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Esperanto
2 entries- Koreio name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- Koreujo name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Estonian
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Faroese
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Finnish
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
French
1 entries- Corée name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Friulian
1 entries- Coree name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Galician
1 entries- Corea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Georgian
1 entries- კორეა name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
German
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Greek
1 entries- Κορέα name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Gujarati
1 entries- કોરિયા name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Hawaiian
1 entries- Kōlea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Hebrew
1 entries- קוֹרֵיאָה name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Hindi
1 entries- कोरिया name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Hungarian
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Icelandic
1 entries- Kórea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Ido
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Indonesian
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Interlingua
1 entries- Corea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- کُرِه name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Irish
1 entries- an Chóiré name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Italian
1 entries- Corea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Japanese
4 entries- コリア name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- 朝鮮 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- 韓国 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- 高麗 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Kalenjin
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Kamba
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Kannada
1 entries- ಕೊರಿಯಾ name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Kashubian
1 entries- Kòreja name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Kazakh
1 entries- Корея name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Khmer
1 entries- កូរ៉េ name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Kikuyu
1 entries- ko name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Korean
3 entries- 우리나라 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- 조선 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- 한국 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- Корея name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Lao
2 entries- ເກົາຫລີ name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- ເກົາຫຼີ name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Latin
1 entries- Corēa name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Latvian
1 entries- Koreja name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Lithuanian
1 entries- Korėja name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- Koreja name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Luhya
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Luo
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Macedonian
1 entries- Коре́ја name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Malay
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Malayalam
1 entries- കൊറിയ name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Maltese
1 entries- il-Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Manchu
2 entries- ᠰᠣᠯᡥᠣ name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- ᠴᠣᠣᡥᡳᠶᠠᠨ name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Marathi
1 entries- कोरिया name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Meru
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Middle Mongolian
1 entries- 莎郎合思 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Mongolian
3 entries- Гуулин name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- Солонгос name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- ᠰᠣᠯᠤᠩᠭᠤᠰ name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Māori
1 entries- Koria name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Nepali
1 entries- कोरिया name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- Kore name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- Qore name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Occitan
1 entries- Corèa name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Odia
1 entries- କୋରିଆ name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Okinawan
2 entries- 韓国 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- 高麗 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Old Turkic
1 entries- 𐰲𐰇𐰞𐰍𐰞 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Ossetian
1 entries- Корей name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قوره name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Pashto
1 entries- کوريا name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Polish
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Portuguese
1 entries- Coreia name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਕੋਰੀਆ name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Romanian
1 entries- Coreea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Romansch
1 entries- Corea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Russian
1 entries- Коре́я name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Sanskrit
1 entries- कोरिया name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Sardinian
1 entries- Corea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Scots
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- Koréja name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- Коре́ја name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Sicilian
1 entries- Corea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Silesian
1 entries- Koryjo name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Sinhalese
1 entries- කොරියාව name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Slovak
1 entries- Kórea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Slovene
1 entries- Korêja name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Spanish
1 entries- Corea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Swahili
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Swedish
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Tagalog
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Tajik
2 entries- Корея name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- Қурия name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Tamil
1 entries- கொரியா name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Tatar
1 entries- Корея name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Telugu
1 entries- కొరియా name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Thai
1 entries- เกาหลี name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཀོ་རི་ཡ name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Tigrinya
1 entries- ኮርያ name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Turkish
1 entries- Kore name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Turkmen
1 entries- Koreýa name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Ukrainian
1 entries- Коре́я name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- Koreja name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Urdu
1 entries- کورِیا name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Uyghur
2 entries- كورىيە name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- چاۋشيەن name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Uzbek
1 entries- Koreya name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Vietnamese
4 entries- Cao Ly name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- Cao Lệ name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- Hàn Quốc name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- Triều Tiên name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Welsh
1 entries- Corea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
West Flemish
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
West-Frisian
1 entries- Koreä name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Wu Chinese
3 entries- 朝鮮 /朝鲜 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- 韓國 /韩国 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- 高麗 /高丽 name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Yiddish
1 entries- קאָרעע name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Zealandic
1 entries- Korea name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Zhuang
2 entries- Cauzsenh name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
- Hanzgoz name (ancient country or both Koreas as a whole)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
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My father is to visit Korea next week.
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Showing 4 of 12 available sentences.
Common questions
What are the closest synonyms for "korea"?
Closest matches include cultural area, cultural sphere, divided korea, ethnolinguistic region, geography.
How should I check whether a synonym fits "korea"?
Compare the replacement against real sentence context. This entry includes sample sentences so you can check tone, grammar, and meaning before swapping words.