SHIKOKU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Shikoku mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIKOKU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Shikoku" 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)