Korean
UK/kəˈɹiːən//kəˈɹi.ən/
Korean adjective: of or relating to the Asian Peninsula comprising North Korea and South Korea.
Adjective
Korean (comparative more Korean, superlative most Korean)
- Of or relating to the Asian Peninsula comprising North Korea and South Korea.
- The show’s stage design features bojagi, traditional Korean patchwork. The audience members are also presented with Korean traditional dance, including buchaechum, or “fan dance,” performed by a group of female dancers using fans painted in different colors.2013 July 18, Claire Lee, “Popular TV drama revisited onstage”, in The Korea Herald
- Of or relating to the Korean language.
Proper noun
Korean
- Official language of the people residing on the Korean Peninsula, and language of approximately 60 million people, in Asia, North America, and elsewhere.
Noun
Korean (plural Koreans)
- A native or resident in North Korea or South Korea, or a person of Korean descent.
- The legacy of the Korean independence movement remains today: nearly two million ethnic Koreans live in China, half of them in the Yenpien Korean Autonomous District in southeast Manchuria.1995, K. Connie Kang, Home Was the Land of Morning Calm, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 32
- All Koreans to become one or even two years younger under int'l system2023 June 26, Jun Ji-hye, “Korea's age system to change from Wednesday”, in The Korea Times, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2024
Korean meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
Korean in Hindi
- relating to the Korean Peninsula
- कोरियाई koriyāī
- Korean language
- कोरियाई koriyāī
- person from Korea
- कोरियाई koriyāī
Korean in Tamil
- கொரிய மொழி, கொரியர், கொரிய நாட்டு மக்கள்
Korean in Marathi
- relating to the Korean Peninsula
- कोरियन koriyan
- Korean language
- कोरियन koriyan
- person from Korea
- कोरियन koriyan
Korean in Urdu
- relating to the Korean Peninsula
- کوریائی koriyā'ī
More languagesFewer languages
- Korean in Bengali
- কোরীয় kōriẏo
- Korean in Sinhala
- කොරියානු koriyānu, කොරියානු භාෂාව koriyānu bhāṣāwa
- Korean in Pashto
- کوریایي
- Korean in Tagalog
- Korean, Koreano, Koreana
- Korean in Arabic
- كُورِيّ kōriyy, كُورِيَّة kōriyya
- Korean in Malay
- Korea, bahasa Korea, orang Korea
- Korean in Indonesian
- Korea, bahasa Korea, orang Korea
- Korean in Persian
- کرهای kore-yi
- Korean in Thai
- เกาหลี gao-lǐi, ภาษาเกาหลี paa-sǎa gao-lǐi
- Korean in Vietnamese
- Triều Tiên, Hàn Quốc, tiếng Hàn Quốc, tiếng Triều Tiên
- Korean in Myanmar
- ကိုရီးယား kuiri:ya:
- Dhivehi
- ކޮރެޔާ ބަސް koreyā bas
Forms of Korean
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more Korean |
| superlative | most Korean |
| alternative form (obsolete) | Corean |
| Noun | |
| plural | Koreans |
Origin of Korean
From Korea + -an.
Words formed from Korean
Phrases with Korean
- Korean War
- Korean ages
- Korean BBQs
- Korean mint
- Korean chess
- Korean Jindo
- Korean melon
- Korean mints
- Korean pears
- Korean pines
- North Korean
- South Korean
18 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with Korean
Questions about Korean
- What does Korean mean?
- Korean means of or relating to the Asian Peninsula comprising North Korea and South Korea.
- What is Korean in Hindi?
- Korean in Hindi is कोरियाई (koriyāī). See Korean meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Korean?
- Korean can be an adjective, a proper noun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce Korean?
- Korean is pronounced /kəˈɹi.ən/ (US).
Words near Korean in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Korean (page history and authors); korean (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-Korean.ogg.
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