YEDO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Yedo mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• YEDO (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("Yedo" 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 

They provided me with carriages and servants, and bore my charges to Yedo; where I was admitted to an audience, and delivered my letter, which was opened with great ceremony, and explained to the Emperor by an interpreter, who then gave me notice, by his majesty’s order, that I should signify my request, and, whatever it were, it should be granted, for the sake of his royal brother of Luggnagg.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

We landed at a small port-town called Xamoschi, situated on the south-east part of Japan; the town lies on the western point, where there is a narrow strait leading northward into along arm of the sea, upon the north-west part of which, Yedo, the metropolis, stands.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)