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HONDO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The central and largest of the four main islands of Japan; between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean; regarded as the Japanese mainland
Synonyms:
Hondo; Honshu
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Meronyms (parts of "Hondo"):
capital of Japan; Edo; Japanese capital; Tokio; Tokyo; Yeddo; Yedo (the capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan)
Nagano (a city in central Honshu to the northwest of Tokyo; site of a Buddhist shrine)
Nagoya (an industrial city in southern Honshu)
Omiya (a city of east central Honshu; a suburb of Tokyo)
Osaka (port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay; a commercial and industrial center of Japan)
Yokohama (port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan)
Kobe (a port city in Japan on Osaka Bay in southern Honshu; was damaged by an earthquake in 1995)
Kyoto (a city in central Japan on southern Honshu; a famous cultural center that was once the capital of Japan)
Hiroshima (a port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan; on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area)
Toyohashi (a Japanese city in southern Honshu on the Pacific shore)
Toyonaki (a Japanese city in southern Honshu; main residential suburb of Osaka)
Toyota (an industrial city of Japan in southern Honshu)
Asama; Mount Asama (a volcano in central Honshu near Nagano; one of the largest volcanoes in Japan (8,340 feet))
Holonyms ("Hondo" is a part of...):
Japan; Japanese Archipelago; Japanese Islands (a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean)