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Jinju

Jinju proper noun: a city in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.

Proper noun

Jinju

  1. A city in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
    • Mr. Kang’s day begins at 6 a.m., when he serves his 13 fighting bulls the first of four hot meals a day. On this morning, Mr. Kang was busy stoking the fire under a caldron filled with bean sprouts, rice stalks, corn, yams, potatoes, pumpkin chunks and anchovies — a stark contrast to the factory...2022 October 24, Choe Sang-Hun, “No Red Cape, or Red Ink, in South Korean Bullrings”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2009, Asia Pacific

Origin of Jinju

Borrowed from Korean 진주(晋州) (Jinju).

Questions about Jinju

What does Jinju mean?
Jinju means a city in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
What part of speech is Jinju?
Jinju is a proper noun.

Words near Jinju in the dictionary

  1. jinjas
  2. Jinjee
  3. Jinji
  4. Jinjiang
  5. jinjili
  6. Jinju
  7. jink
  8. jinked
  9. jinker
  10. jinkered
  11. jinkering

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