KOBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kobe mean? 

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

1. a port city in Japan on Osaka Bay in southern Honshu; was damaged by an earthquake in 1995

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KOBE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A port city in Japan on Osaka Bay in southern Honshu; was damaged by an earthquake in 1995

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Holonyms ("Kobe" 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)

 Context examples 

Amateur researcher and systems engineer Yutaka Iwasaki of Kobe, Japan came across military records that showed a Japanese bomber had attacked a U.S. vessel in late February, but the coordinates it gave differed from the Navy's figures for the Grayback by one digit.

(Lost 52 Project announces discovery of wrecked sub near Okinawa, Wikinews)