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Joseon

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈd͡ʒəʊsʌn//
  • United Kingdom//ˈt͡ʃəʊsʌn//
  • United States//ˈd͡ʒoʊsʌn//
  • United States//ˈt͡ʃoʊsʌn//

A former Korean kingdom and dynasty in East Asia which ruled the Korean Peninsula from 1392 CE to 1897 CE.

proper noun

  1. 1

    historicalA former Korean kingdom and dynasty in East Asia which ruled the Korean Peninsula from 1392 CE to 1897 CE.

Etymology

From the Revised Romanization of Korean 조선(朝鮮) (Joseon).

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).