🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

発見

Pronunciation / Transliteration: hakken

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Discovery/dɪsˈkʌv.ər.i/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #800 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"新しい薬の発見によって多くの命が救われた。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The action or process of uncovering or discovering something previously hidden, unknown, or secret.

    "The unexpected discovery of the hidden documents changed the course of the investigation."
  2. 2

    A fact or thing that is discovered.

    "Marie Curie's scientific discovery of radium revolutionized modern physics and medicine."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'discovery' originates from the Middle English 'discovere', which comes from the Old French 'descovrir', derived from the Latin 'discooperire', meaning 'to uncover'. The term has evolved over centuries to denote the act of finding or uncovering something previously unknown.

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