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Korematsu

Korematsu proper noun: a surname from Japanese.

Proper noun

Korematsu (plural Korematsus)

  1. A surname from Japanese.
    • The slim young man told Poulsen that his name was Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu. He was a welder and had lived until recently in nearby Oakland, where he had been born in 1919, with his Japanese-born parents and three brothers.1983, Peter Irons, Justice at War: The Story of the Japanese-American Internment Cases, University of California Press (1993), 93

Forms of Korematsu

pluralKorematsus

Origin of Korematsu

Borrowed from Japanese 是松 (Korematsu).

Questions about Korematsu

What does Korematsu mean?
Korematsu means a surname from Japanese.
What part of speech is Korematsu?
Korematsu is a proper noun.

Words near Korematsu in the dictionary

  1. Koreatowns
  2. Koreelah
  3. Koreish
  4. Koreishite
  5. Koreishites
  6. Korematsu
  7. Korematsus
  8. Koren
  9. Korenevsky
  10. korenizatsiia
  11. Korens

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