지대
Meanings
Noun
1. a region or area; a district
2. ground rent, tallage (money or other goods paid to a landowner in exchange for land use)
3. travel bag or sack carried by monks (Buddhism)
4. part of a building supporting the foundation (architecture)
5. detachment (military)
6. girdle (such as the pelvic girdle, pectoral girdle (anatomy)
7. paper bag
8. abutment (architecture)
9. retinaculum (anatomy)
10. tithe; money paid to a landowner in exchange for use of the land
Pronunciation
jidae
Examples4
그 지대는 동쪽이 높았다.
The land was high to the east.
토기의 발명은 인류 역사에 지대한 영향을 미쳤다.
The invention of pottery had a great impact on human history.
면 지대에 활동하던 사람 중 다소 똑똑한 사람은 군당 조직으로 선발되어 들어갔고 면 지대에는 '어벙한 사람'들이 남았다 (청통면 김○○ 구술).
Among the people who were active [as Communist guerrillas] in the township area, the people who were rather intelligent were selected for county-level units, and [only] the "dumbish people" were left on the township level. (Recollection of Kim XX from Cheongtong township.)
우범 지대
crime-ridden district