Library / English Dictionary

YEZO

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshu

Synonyms:

Ezo; Hokkaido; Yezo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Meronyms (parts of "Yezo"):

Asahikawa (a city on western Hokkaido that is the center of a fertile agricultural area)

Sapporo (a commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido)

Holonyms ("Yezo" 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)

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