Nissan

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A car of the Japanese Nissan brand.

    "Angry Japanese and British officials say foreign investors will be scared away from Europe unless France and Italy ease tough regulations that treat English-made Nissans as Japanese cars, subjecting them to strict import quotas."

  2. 2
    the seventh month of the civil year; the first month of the ecclesiastic year (in March and April) wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A Japanese car manufacturer.

    "The Bluebird dispute is being watched closely in Europe and overseas because the 2,000-employee Nissan plant at Sunderland, England, near Newcastle, represents the largest direct investment by the Japanese in Europe."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of Nisan (“the Hebrew month”). alt-of, alternative
  3. 3
    A surname from Hebrew.

Synonyms

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nisannisan

Example

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"I had a Nissan before this one."

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 日産(にっさん) (Nissan, “Nissan”), an abbreviation of 日本産業 (Nihon Sangyō, literally “Japan Industries”).

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