TOKYO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tokyo mean? 

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

1. the capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOKYO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Japan; Edo; Japanese capital; Tokio; Tokyo; Yeddo; Yedo

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Holonyms ("Tokyo" 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)

 Context examples 

The results are bad news, especially for the nutrition of the poorer population in less-developed countries, because this population depends for nutrition on rice, said study co-author Kazuhiko Kobayashi at the University of Tokyo.

(Planet-Warming Gases Make Some Food Less Nutritious, Study Says, Steve Baragona/VOA)