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Dictionary entry overview: What does Kyoto mean?
• KYOTO (noun)
The noun KYOTO has 1 sense:
1. a city in central Japan on southern Honshu; a famous cultural center that was once the capital of Japan
Familiarity information: KYOTO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A city in central Japan on southern Honshu; a famous cultural center that was once the capital of Japan
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)
Holonyms ("Kyoto" 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
It may combine the species, background strain, substrain, and associated genetic modifications as supplied by the vendor (e.g., C57BL/6, A/J, B6.129-Pparg<tm2Rev>/J, FISCHER 344, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY IGS, WISTAR Kyoto, BEAGLE, CYNOMOLGUS, RHESUS and CHIMPANZEE).
(CDISC SEND Laboratory Animal Strain Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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