EDO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Edo mean? 

• EDO (noun)
  The noun EDO has 2 senses:

1. a member of a west African people living in the tropical forest region of southern Nigeria

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

  Familiarity information: EDO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EDO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a west African people living in the tropical forest region of southern Nigeria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Edo" is a kind of...):

Nigerian (a native or inhabitant of Nigeria)

Sense 2

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 ("Edo" 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)