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Quelparte

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

Proper noun

Quelparte

  1. (obsolete) Jeju, an island of South Korea.
    • In 1898 Mr. Harrison persuaded Miss Linnie Davis to come to Chunju as Mrs. Harrison, and they took Chang Gooky as servant in the new home. Drawn nearer to the Master through Mrs. Harrison’s teaching, he expressed a desire to become a preacher of the Word, so he studied first in our Mission school...1920, Anabel Major Nisbet, “The Preparation (1892-1899)”, in Day In and Day Out in Korea: Being some account of the mission work that has been carried on in Korea since 1892 by the Presbyterian...
    • Then she started northward, by way of the Ryukyu Islands, for the Sea of Japan. In the vicinity of the Island of Quelparte the whalers occupied themselves leisurely with the fishing.1936, Herbert H. Gowen, chapter IV, in Five Foreigners in Japan, Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press, Inc., published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 202

Forms of Quelparte

alternative formQuelpart
alternative formQuelpaert

Questions about Quelparte

What does Quelparte mean?
Quelparte means jeju, an island of South Korea.
What part of speech is Quelparte?
Quelparte is a proper noun.

Words near Quelparte in the dictionary

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

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