OSAKA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Osaka mean? 

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

1. port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay; a commercial and industrial center of Japan

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OSAKA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay; a commercial and industrial center of Japan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Meronyms (parts of "Osaka"):

Minato Ohashi Bridge (cantilever bridge at Osaka, Japan)

Holonyms ("Osaka" 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)