noun
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
• Syn: ↑Honshu
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑island
• Part Holonyms: ↑Japan, ↑Japanese Islands, ↑Japanese Archipelago
• Part Meronyms:
↑Tokyo, ↑Tokio, ↑Yeddo, ↑Yedo, ↑Edo, ↑Japanese capital, ↑capital of Japan, ↑Nagano, ↑Nagoya, ↑Omiya, ↑Osaka, ↑Yokohama, ↑Kobe, ↑Kyoto, ↑Hiroshima, ↑Toyohashi, ↑Toyonaki, ↑Toyota, ↑Asama, ↑Mount Asama
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\\ˈhän(ˌ)dō\ noun (-s) : a broad low-lying arroyo in the southwestern United States
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/hon"doh/; for 1 also Japn. /hawn"daw/; for 2 also Sp. /awn"daw/, n.
1. Honshu.
2. a river flowing NE from Guatemala along the border of Belize and Mexico to the Caribbean Sea. 150 mi. (240 km) long.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.