English Explanatory Dictionary

hermit kingdom

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any country or organization that deliberately isolates itself from the wider world.
name
  1. North Korea.
  2. Synonym of Tibet (“a former country in East Asia that existed from 1912 until its annexation by China in 1951.”)

Word forms

hermit kingdom hermit kingdoms the Hermit Kingdom

Synonyms

Tibet
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