Nagasaki

[ nah-guh-sah-kee, nag-uh-sak-ee; Japanese nah-gah-sah-kee ]

/ ˌnɑ gəˈsɑ ki, ˌnæg əˈsæk i; Japanese ˈnɑ gɑˈsɑ ki /

noun

a seaport on W Kyushu, in SW Japan: second military use of the atomic bomb August 9, 1945.

Example sentences from the Web for nagasaki

I remember H. Jon Benjamin told me it was a way-too-late apology for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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The weapon carries a 200-kiloton nuclear warhead; by comparison, the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki was a mere 21 kilotons.

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At that point, Yuji and his father asked if I would consider attending the annual memorial ceremonies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Truman’s Grandson & Japan’s A-Bomb Survivors: A Story of Reconciliation |Clifton Truman Daniel |August 5, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Instead, Nugent bemoaned in a 2006 interview, “Our failure has been not to Nagasaki them.”

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the consequence of Japanese aggression.

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There was so much more that I meant to tell you about Nagasaki and the funeral procession that I found in her streets.

From Sea to Sea |Rudyard Kipling
These are the traditional colors, and all respectable families of Nagasaki possess a similar net.

Madame Chrysantheme Complete |Pierre Loti
The students make excursions to Nagasaki and other places, by railroad and steamer.

The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 2 |Elizabeth Bisland
At last the Columbia came into sight of the shipping of Nagasaki.

At the Fall of Port Arthur |Edward Stratemeyer
The procession will climb high up, far away above Nagasaki, into the heart of the green mountain all peopled with tombs.

Madame Chrysantheme |Pierre Loti

British Dictionary definitions for nagasaki

Nagasaki

/ (ˌnɑːɡəˈsɑːkɪ) /

noun

a port in SW Japan, on W Kyushu: almost completely destroyed in 1945 by the second atomic bomb dropped on Japan by the US; shipbuilding industry. Pop: 419 901 (2002 est)

Cultural definitions for nagasaki

Nagasaki

[ (nah-guh-sah-kee, nag-uh-sak-ee) ]

City in southern Japan; one of Japan's leading ports and shipbuilding centers.

notes for Nagasaki

The first Japanese port to welcome Western traders in the sixteenth century, it was the only Japanese port open to the West from 1641 to 1858.

notes for Nagasaki

Nagasaki became the second populated area to be devastated by an atomic bomb (see also atomic bomb), on August 9, 1945. ( See also Hiroshima (see also Hiroshima).)

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