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Quelpart

Quelpart proper noun: jeju, an island of South Korea.

Proper noun

Quelpart

  1. (obsolete) Jeju, an island of South Korea.
    • The island of Quelpart lies some fifty miles off the southern coast of the Korean mainland, but only thirty from the outer edge of the line of islands that fringe the coast of the peninsula. It ism in all probability, geologically one with the range of mountains which forms the backbone of Korea...1905, H. B. Hulbert, “The Island of Quelpart.”, in Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, volume XXXVII, number 7, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 396
    • LATE in the afternoon of an August day, accompanied by my Japanese interpreter, Ichikawa, and my Korean servant, King, I boarded a little steamer in the harbor of Mokpo, bound for the remote island of Quelpart, which lies off the southern coast of Korea.1914 April, Malcolm P. Anderson, “Forty Days in Quelpart Island”, in Overland Monthly, volume LXIII, number 4, San Francisco, →OCLC, page 392, column 1

Examples of Quelpart in a sentence

  • The island of Quelpart lies some fifty miles off the southern coast of the Korean mainland, but only thirty from the outer edge of the line of islands that fringe the coast of the peninsula.1905, H. B. Hulbert, “The Island of Quelpart.”, in Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, volume XXXVII, number 7, →ISSN, →OCLC...
  • Street III, on the sub’s first war patrol, was in the harbor of Korea’s Quelpart Island in the early morning darkness of 14 April 1945.2007, Flint Whitlock, Ron Smith, “A Writhing, Twisting Maelstrom”, in The Depths of Courage : American Submariners at War with Japan...

Forms of Quelpart

alternative formQuelpaert
alternative formQuelparte

Questions about Quelpart

What does Quelpart mean?
Quelpart means jeju, an island of South Korea.
How do you use Quelpart in a sentence?
The island of Quelpart lies some fifty miles off the southern coast of the Korean mainland, but only thirty from the outer edge of the line of islands that fringe the coast of the peninsula.
What part of speech is Quelpart?
Quelpart is a proper noun.

Words near Quelpart in the dictionary

  1. quells
  2. quellung
  3. quellungs
  4. Queloz
  5. Quelpaert
  6. Quelpart
  7. Quelparte
  8. queltehue
  9. queltehues
  10. Queluz
  11. queluzite

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