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Hirabayashi

Hirabayashi proper noun: a surname from Japanese.

Proper noun

Hirabayashi (plural Hirabayashis)

  1. A surname from Japanese.
    • On the morning of May 16, 1942, Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi arrived at the FBI office in Seattle, accompanied by a local lawyer, Arthur Barnett.1983, Peter Irons, Justice at War: The Story of the Japanese-American Internment Cases, University of California Press, published 1993, pages 87–88

Forms of Hirabayashi

pluralHirabayashis

Origin of Hirabayashi

Borrowed from Japanese 平林 (Hirabayashi).

Questions about Hirabayashi

What does Hirabayashi mean?
Hirabayashi means a surname from Japanese.
What part of speech is Hirabayashi?
Hirabayashi is a proper noun.

Words near Hirabayashi in the dictionary

  1. Hipwoods
  2. hipwort
  3. HIQA
  4. hir
  5. Hira
  6. Hirabayashi
  7. Hirabayashis
  8. hirable
  9. hirabol myrrh
  10. Hirachandra
  11. Hirado

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