KYUSHU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kyushu mean? 

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

1. the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan; contains coal fields

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KYUSHU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The southernmost of the four main islands of Japan; contains coal fields

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Kyushu"):

Kitakyushu (a Japanese city on northern Kyushu)

Fukuoka (a city in southern Japan on Kyushu)

Nagasaki (a city in southern Japan on Kyushu; a leading port and shipbuilding center; on August 9, 1945 Nagasaki became the second populated area to receive an atomic bomb)

Minamata Bay (a bay on the west coast of Kyushu; in the 1950s industrial wastes caused mercury poisoning among the Japanese people who ate fish from Minamata Bay)

Holonyms ("Kyushu" 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)

 Context examples 

The game began to be developed almost two years ago during a doctorate course at the University of Kyushu, in Japan, by Sylker Teles, game design professor at the Analysis Center, Research and Technological Innovation Foundation (FUCAPI).

(Brazilian professor creates mobile game that combines fun with mathematics, Agência Brasil)