NAGOYA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nagoya mean? 

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

1. an industrial city in southern Honshu

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAGOYA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An industrial city in southern Honshu

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 ("Nagoya" 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 

Dr. Kilduff’s lab and that of his collaborator, Akihiro Yamanaka, Ph.D., at Nagoya University in Japan, have spent years examining the role of a hormone called hypocretin/orexin in controlling sleep and narcolepsy.

(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)