Daegu

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UK/daˈɡuː/US/dæˈɡu/US/ˈdeɪɡu/

proper noun

A city in South Korea.

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Meanings

proper noun

alternative Taegu

  1. A city in South Korea.

    In a densely populated but otherwise quiet district in Daegu, a city in southeastern South Korea, a highly emotional standoff is underway.

    2022 March 1, Choe Sang-Hun, “How ‘Multiculturalism’ Became a Bad Word in South Korea”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2022
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    Of the 599 new cases in South Korea announced on Monday, 377 were from the country's fourth largest city, Daegu, home to a branch of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, to which the majority of the country's cases have been traced after some its members visited China's Wuhan city, the epicenter of the disease. More than half of South Korea's 4,000 cases have been linked to Shincheonji.

    2020 March 3, “South Korea church leader apologizes for coronavirus spread”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2020, News

Origin

  1. Korean대구(大邱)
  2. EnglishDaegu

Borrowed from Korean 대구(大邱) (Daegu, literally “great hill”).

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Translations

Arabic دَايْغُو
  • دَايْغُو (dāyḡū)city in South Korea
Chinese Cantonese 大邱
  • 大邱 (daai⁶ jau¹)city in South Korea
Chinese Mandarin 大邱
  • 大邱 (Dàqiū)city in South Korea
Greek Ντέγκου
  • Ντέγκου (Ntégkou)city in South Korea
Hindi दैगू
  • दैगू (daigū)city in South Korea
Hungarian Tegu
  • Tegucity in South Korea
Italian Taegu
  • Taegucity in South Korea
Japanese 大邱
  • 大邱city in South Korea
Korean 대구
  • 대구 (Daegu)city in South Korea
Russian Тэ́гу
  • Тэ́гу (Tɛ́gu)city in South Korea
Spanish Daegu
  • Daegucity in South Korea
Thai แทกู
  • แทกู (tɛɛ-guu)city in South Korea
Turkish Tegu
  • Tegucity in South Korea
Ukrainian Те́гу
  • Те́гу (Téhu)city in South Korea

Rhymes & wordplay

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Cite this entry
APA

Daegu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Daegu

MLA

“Daegu.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Daegu. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Daegu,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Daegu.

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