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OSAKA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Osaka mean?
• OSAKA (noun)
The noun OSAKA has 1 sense:
1. port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay; a commercial and industrial center of Japan
Familiarity information: OSAKA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay; a commercial and industrial center 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)
port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)
Meronyms (parts of "Osaka"):
Minato Ohashi Bridge (cantilever bridge at Osaka, Japan)
Holonyms ("Osaka" 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)
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