Word.ws English Dictionary

Ōkuninushi

Ōkuninushi proper noun: the Japanese god of nation-building, farming, business, and medicine, as well as love and good love matches.

Proper noun

Ōkuninushi

  1. (Japanese) The Japanese god of nation-building, farming, business, and medicine, as well as love and good love matches.

Origin of Ōkuninushi

Borrowed from Japanese 大国主 (Ōkuninushi).

Questions about Ōkuninushi

What does Ōkuninushi mean?
Ōkuninushi means the Japanese god of nation-building, farming, business, and medicine, as well as love and good love matches.
What part of speech is Ōkuninushi?
Ōkuninushi is a proper noun.

Words near Ōkuninushi in the dictionary

  1. ō
  2. ōdachi
  3. Ōita
  4. Ōkawa
  5. ōkubi-e
  6. Ōkuninushi
  7. Ōkuninushi-no-mikoto
  8. Ōmura
  9. Ōnan
  10. Ōno
  11. Ōsaka

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Ōkuninushi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Ōkuninushi.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/%C5%8Dkuninushi. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.