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Definition of Nagasaki

1. Noun. A city in southern Japan on Kyushu; a leading port and shipbuilding center; on August 9, 1945 Nagasaki became the second populated area to receive an atomic bomb.

Definition of Nagasaki

1. Proper noun. A large city in Western Kyushu, in Japan; it was annihilated by the second military use of the atomic bomb on August 9, 1945. ¹

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Literary usage of Nagasaki

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1881)
"My apology for the following notes on the introduction of foreign commerce and religion into Nagasaki, and on its early history, must be the special ..."

2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1875)
"Nagasaki is the terminus of two telegraph cables, one to Shanghai, ... The sur- Nagasaki. rounding country is rich in metallic wealth, and its vicinity to ..."

3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"The bay of Nagasaki is 7 m. in length by 1 in breadth, and is bounded by ... The scenery around Nagasaki is very beautiful, resembling the best parts of the ..."

4. Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan in the Years by Laurence Oliphant (1859)
"Nagasaki was not in former times, as it is now, one of the Imperial demesnes, or lands appertaining to the Crown. It became so in consequence of a series of ..."

5. The History of Japan: Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam by Engelbert Kaempfer, Simon Delboe, William Ramsden, Hammond Gibben (1906)
"What happen'd before our Journey. THE HISTORY OF JAPAN Chap. VII. Our Journey by Land from Nagasaki to Kokura. Aturday the tenth of February 1691, ..."

6. Narrative of a Voyage Round the World: Performed in Her Majesty's Ship by Edward Belcher, Richard Brinsley Hinds, Great Britain Admiralty (1872)
"Nagasaki is the first town touched at by the steamers plying between ... The entrance to Nagasaki from the ocean is by a long bay, broken as to its mouth by ..."

7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"3 Jesuits, and 17 Japanese Christians) were crucified at Nagasaki in 1597. Persistent rumors that the taiko was about to revisit ..."

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