ASAMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Asama mean? 

• ASAMA (noun)
  The noun ASAMA has 1 sense:

1. a volcano in central Honshu near Nagano; one of the largest volcanoes in Japan (8,340 feet)

  Familiarity information: ASAMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASAMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A volcano in central Honshu near Nagano; one of the largest volcanoes in Japan (8,340 feet)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Asama; Mount Asama

Instance hypernyms:

volcano (a mountain formed by volcanic material)

Holonyms ("Asama" is a part of...):

Hondo; Honshu (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)

Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)