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Pusan

/ˌpuːˈsɑːn/

Pusan is the dated form of Busan.

Meaning of Busan

Proper noun

Busan

  1. A metropolitan city of South Korea. It is the second largest city and the largest port city in Korea. It is also well known for its beaches and port.
    • "We are seeing cases where the newly built urban spaces are beginning to experience sudden flooding and storm surge," said Choi. She highlighted the case of Marine City in Busan, South Korea, a residential community dominated by upscale skyscrapers, where successive typhoons over the last decade...2023 May 15, Martin Kuebler, “Rising sea levels: Is land reclamation still viable?”, in DW News, archived from the original on 19 May 2023
    Synonyms:
    Fusan

Questions about Pusan

What is Pusan the dated form of?
Pusan is the dated form of Busan.
How do you pronounce Pusan?
Pusan is pronounced /ˌpuːˈsɑːn/.

Words near Pusan in the dictionary

  1. Purépecha
  2. pus
  3. pus jewel
  4. pus jewels
  5. pus-gutted
  6. Pusan
  7. Pusapati
  8. Pusapatis
  9. Pusateri
  10. Pusateris
  11. PUSB

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pusan (page history and authors); Busan (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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