Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

south jeolla

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.65 in modern English

Syllables: south -je-ol-la
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A province of South Korea.

Example Sentences

"Eight years ago, the South Korean province of South Jeolla, which includes this sleepy coastal county, cleared 1,000 acres of rice paddies and embarked on a $375 million experiment: building a Formula One track."
"But of even deeper concern to the experts have been the more than 400 seismic tremors since April 26 in a single area in South Jeolla Province, in the far south-west of the peninsula. The region has not reported seismic activity since the government first began collating data in 1978."

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 전라남도(全羅南道) (Jeollanamdo).

Origin

Source language: Korean

Word Breakdown

Root: ^전라남도(全羅南道)

Questions

What does south jeolla mean?: A province of South Korea.
Where does south jeolla come from?: It is traced to Korean.

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