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NK

NK is the initialism of North Korea.

NK is the initialism of Nagorno-Karabakh.

NK is the initialism of Ninja Kiwi.

NK is the initialism of natural killer.

NK is the initialism of not kidding.

Meaning of North Korea

Proper noun

North Korea

  1. A country in East Asia, whose territory consists of the northern part of Korea. Official name: Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Capital: Pyongyang.
    • The Little Assembly directed the commission to hold elections "wherever possible" which means, in effect, the United States-occupied zone. Russia, occupying North Korea, has boycotted the commission completely.1948 March 9 [1948 March 8], “U.N. Officials Fight Korea Voting Plan”, in The Washington Post, number 26,199, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2

Meaning of Nagorno-Karabakh

Proper noun

Nagorno-Karabakh (uncountable)

  1. A landlocked region in South Caucasus.
  2. The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

Forms of NK

pluralNKs

Questions about NK

What is NK the initialism of?
NK is the initialism of North Korea.

Words near NK in the dictionary

  1. NJPs
  2. NJQSAC
  3. NJRF
  4. Njuguna
  5. Njugunas
  6. NK
  7. nk.
  8. nka
  9. Nkana
  10. Nkandlagate
  11. NKAO

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Adapted from Wiktionary: NK (page history and authors); North Korea (page history and authors); Nagorno-Karabakh (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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