Nagasaki

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

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

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noun

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

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How to use Nagasaki in a sentence

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.
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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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And he also agreed to open to American ships another port besides that of Nagasaki, where the Dutch were received.
Stories of Our Naval Heroes|Various
I've seen it at Tokio and Nagasaki—why, man, it's the yellow policeman's hold, the secret trick of the Orient.
The Way of a Man|Emerson Hough
Not less enterprising is the Prince of Fizen, in whose principality the well-known port of Nagasaki is situated.
Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863|Various
The town of Nagasaki was clean and tidy; very different in these respects from that whence we had arrived.
Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army|Charles Alexander Gordon
With the exception of one wretched Dutch factory on the minute island of Deshima in the harbour of Nagasaki.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind|Herbert George Wells

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)

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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).)