Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: japan
IPA transcription: [dʒəp'æn]
Pronunciations of japan
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Japan, Japanese_Islands, Japanese_Archipelago
    Meaning: a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean
  • Synonyms: Japan, Nippon, Nihon
    Meaning: a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: japan
    Meaning: coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan
Usage examples
  • Artistic Japan
  • "I'd say made in Japan, about 1920," Rand replied.
  • Like all things else in Japan, shopping takes plenty of time.
  • Of the many good plants from Japan, this is the best that has reached us of late years.
  • At Sagami in Japan there is a stone which draws down rain whenever water is poured on it.
  • Many charming tales are told of old Japan, and even Western stories have found their way to these assemblies.
  • There are no great manufactories to be seen, and the bane of so many cities, the polluting factory smoke, never rises over the cities of Japan.
  • A liberal education, and more freedom in early life for women, has been suggested, and is now being tried, but the problem of the geisha and her fascination is a deep one in Japan.
  • It was to this glacier that the ships of the Alaska Ice Company resorted for the ice they carried to San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands, and, I believe, also to China and Japan.
  • The Japanese written language, the language of Japanese literature, tends to assimilate itself to Chinese, and fresh Chinese words and expressions are continually taking root in Japan.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Submarine, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Attack on Pearl Harbor, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Sheffield, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Avril Lavigne, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Cat, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording History of Syria, License CC BY-SA 4.0