JAPANESE ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Japanese Islands mean? 

• JAPANESE ISLANDS (noun)
  The noun JAPANESE ISLANDS has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: JAPANESE ISLANDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JAPANESE ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Japan; Japanese Archipelago; Japanese Islands

Instance hypernyms:

archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Japanese Islands"):

Ezo; Hokkaido; Yezo (the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshu)

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)

Kyushu (the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan; contains coal fields)

Shikoku (the smallest of the four main islands of Japan; to the south of Honshu and to the east of Kyushu; separated from Honshu by the Inland Sea; forested and mountainous)

Osaka Bay (a bay of the western Pacific in southern Honshu)

Holonyms ("Japanese Islands" is a part of...):

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)