Daegu

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 대구(大邱) (Daegu, literally “great hill”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /daˈɡuː/
  • (US) IPA(key): /dæˈɡu/, /ˈdeɪɡu/
  • enPR: tīʹgo͞oʹ, tǎʹgo͞oʹ[1]
  • Rhymes: -uː

Proper noun

Daegu

  1. A city in South Korea.
    • 2020 March 3, “South Korea church leader apologizes for coronavirus spread”, in Deutsche Welle‎[2], archived from the original on 03 March 2020, News‎[3]:
      Of the 599 new cases in South Korea announced on Monday, 377 were from the country's fourth largest city, Daegu, home to a branch of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, to which the majority of the country's cases have been traced after some its members visited China's Wuhan city, the epicenter of the disease. More than half of South Korea's 4,000 cases have been linked to Shincheonji.
    • 2022 March 1, Choe Sang-Hun, “How ‘Multiculturalism’ Became a Bad Word in South Korea”, in The New York Times‎[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 March 2022, Asia Pacific‎[5]:
      In a densely populated but otherwise quiet district in Daegu, a city in southeastern South Korea, a highly emotional standoff is underway.

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References

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

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