Etymology

Goryeo

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Today it means: a Korean dynasty, a kingdom, which gave rise to the modern exonym for Korea. Full definition →

Korean 고려(高麗)
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The story

  1. Korean · borrowed from고려(高麗)
  2. English todayGoryeo

From the Revised Romanization of Korean 고려(高麗) (goryeo). Doublet of Korea.

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