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say it: kaw-REE-uhn
korean is a noun and adjective meaning "a native or inhabitant of Korea who speaks the Korean language". It is pronounced /ˌkɔˈɹiən/ — kaw-REE-uhn. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a native or inhabitant of Korea who speaks the Korean language
the Altaic language spoken by Koreans
of or relating to or characteristic of Korea or its people or language
“Korean handicrafts”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for korean come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.