Tokyo
/ˈtoʊ.ki.oʊ/ name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A prefecture and capital city of Japan.
"The first phase of the project, connecting Tokyo and Nagoya, is scheduled to be completed in 2027 and is expected to cut traveling time between those cities by half."
- 2 The Japanese government. metonymically
"Tokyo required certain military technologies and some raw materials that its main European ally already possessed, and also needed new markets for its Southeast Asian products in order to keep the local economies alive."
Example
More examples"How long did it take you to drive from here to Tokyo?"
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 東(とう)京(きょう) (Tōkyō, literally “eastern capital”), as opposed to Kyoto in the west, from Middle Chinese 東 (tuwng, “east”) + 京 (kjaeng, “capital”).