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SAPPORO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sapporo mean? 

SAPPORO (noun)
  The noun SAPPORO has 1 sense:

1. a commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaidoplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SAPPORO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido

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)

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

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

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


 Context examples 


In this study, Dr. Kilduff worked with Dr. Yamanaka’s lab and Akira Terao’s, D.V.M., Ph.D., lab at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, to look at neighboring cells that produce melanin concentrating hormone (MCH), a molecule known to be involved in the control of both sleep and appetite.

(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)



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