YOKOHAMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Yokohama mean? 

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

1. port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• YOKOHAMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Port city on southeastern Honshu in central 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)

Holonyms ("Yokohama" 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 

If it were any other captain except ours, I should say you would be ashore in Yokohama to-morrow.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then the city and the harbor of Yokohama, in a thousand pictures, began flashing before his eyes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Can you tell me, Mr. Van Weyden, how far we are off the coast, and what the bearings of Yokohama are?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Next his mind leaped to the Grand Hotel at Yokohama, where, too, from the sidewalk, he had seen grand ladies.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The City of Tokio, from ’Frisco, bound for Yokohama.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She caught her breath and stammered, “I—I thought—I was given to understand that Yokohama was only a day’s sail away. It—”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He at once put the Ghost upon her course—a course which meant the seal herd and not Yokohama harbour.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was on the verge of my tongue to ask if he were going to take the castaways into Yokohama.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

’Twas called a sad accident, but I met the boat-puller in Yokohama an’ the straight iv it was given me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The boat was cast adrift, though one of them called it a “bloody shame” with Yokohama so near.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)