busan

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˌbuːˈsɑːn/

Definition of busan

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

name

  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 have tossed waves over seawalls and submerged nearby streets.”
    “The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson arrived Tuesday in the South Korean port city of Busan in a new exhibition of the deterrence mechanism established by Washington and Seoul against Pyongyang.”

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Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 부산(釜山) (Busan).

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