YEZO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Yezo mean? 

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

1. the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshu

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• YEZO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshu

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Ezo; Hokkaido; Yezo

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Yezo"):

Asahikawa (a city on western Hokkaido that is the center of a fertile agricultural area)

Sapporo (a commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido)

Holonyms ("Yezo" 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)