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Answer for the clue ""Land of the morning calm" ", 5 letters:
korea

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Chinese Gao li , name of a dynasty founded 918, literally "high serenity." Japanese Chosen is from Korean Choson , literally "land of morning calm," from cho "morning" + son "calm." Related: Korean (1610s).\n

Usage examples of korea.

On the aft wall Pacino had taped a large chart of the Go Hai and Korea bays, the Lushun area in the center.

Four countries--Iraq, Iran, North Korea, and Syria--are believed to be developing botulinum toxin as a weapon.

My daughter Bee, from my marriage to Tweedy Browner, was just starting seventh grade in a Washington suburb and was having trouble readjusting to life in the States after two years in South Korea.

In charge of finding an ideal location to eavesdrop on Russia, China, and North Korea was Navy Captain Wesley Wright, a pioneer cryptologist, who was based in Tokyo as chief of NSA Pacific.

I had heard that shipboard romances could be really memorable occurrences, but the only person who I could find on deck at night was a wrinkled old dermatologist from Korea who spent the better part of a week trying to convince me that contrary to popular belief the earth was really flat, or at the very least built along the lines of a gently pitched roof.

Instead of being honored as they deserved, the dogs of Korea, Vietnam, and of the peacetime military in the years following that war were put to death.

About the only people who use the Enfield Marine complex in a VA-related way now seem to be wild-eyed old Vietnam veterans in fatigue jackets de-sleeved to make vests, or else drastically old Korea vets who are now senile or terminally alcoholic or both.

North Korea, past Inchon, where on September 15, nine days before General Ned Almond had led the X Corps ashore.

X Corps at Inchon, General Ned Almond, had had to borrow a helicopter from the Marines to make his way around Korea.

Korea to Inchon, the seaport used by the American forces, a center of great cargo dumps and gasoline depots.

Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Cuba, South Yemen, Congo-Brazzaville, North Vietnam, Guinea-Bissau, Cambodia, Laos, South Vietnam, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the Seychelles, Grenada, and Afghanistan.

South Korea, the Malaysian peninsula, the Philippines, Borneo, maybe even Australia.

The Government of the Mikado did its best to prove its concern and goodwill by continuing an ostentatious policy of emigration to its new possessions, Korea and Southern Manchuria.

STEVENS, 0498666, Tank Company, 24th Infantry Regiment, was interviewed at Tokyo General Hospital, where he is undergoing treatment both for bum injuries received in combat and in the neuropsychiatric division, related the following: On 16 September 1950, shortly after he joined Tank Company, 24th Infantry Regiment, in the vicinity of Tonghae, Republic of Korea, he was serving as a crew member of an M4A3 tank.

Then in 1905 the first Roosevelt, seeking to arrive at a diplomatic understanding with Japan, instigated an exchange of opinions between Secretary of War Taft, then in the Far East, and Count Katsura, amounting to a secret treaty, by which the Roosevelt administration assented to the establishment by Japan of a military protectorate in Korea.