English Explanatory Dictionary

Seoul

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The capital city of South Korea, also the historical capital of Korea from 1394 until the country was divided in 1945.
  2. the South Korean government

Pronunciation

/səʊl/ sōl /soʊl/ En-us-sole.ogg

Word forms

Seoul

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 서울 (Seoul, literally “capital city”), originally from Claude-Charles Dallet's French-based romanization of Korean, reinforced by the 1959 South Korean Ministry of Education romanization of Korean, which transcribed the Korean vowel ㅓ (/⁠ʌ⁠/) with the digraph "eo" and which was official until 1984. Note that English Seoul predates the Revised Romanization romanization of Seoul. The two romanization systems simply produce identical forms.

Synonyms

Hanseong Hanyang Keijō Han-ch'eng

Related words

Pyongyang capital city of North Korea

Derived words

Seoulite
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