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Jap.

Jap. is the abbreviation of Japan.

Jap. is the abbreviation of Japanese.

Meaning of Japan

Proper noun

Japan

  1. A country in East Asia. Capital and largest city: Tokyo.
    • Vivian: If you set a picture by Hokusai, or Hokkei, or any of the great native painters, beside a real Japanese gentleman or lady, you will see that there is not the slightest resemblance between them. The actual people who live in Japan are not unlike the general run of English people; that is to...1889 Jan., Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying: An Observation", The Nineteenth Century
  2. An archipelago of East Asia; in full, Japanese archipelago.

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Meaning of Japanese

Proper noun

Japanese

  1. A language that is primarily spoken in East Asia and is the official language of Japan.
    • I’ve been studying Japanese for three years, and I still can’t order pizza in Tokyo!
    Synonyms:
    Nipponese, Nihongo

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Questions about Jap.

What is Jap. the abbreviation of?
Jap. is the abbreviation of Japan.

Words near Jap. in the dictionary

  1. Jaouad
  2. Jaouads
  3. jap
  4. Jap silk
  5. Jap's eye
  6. Jap.
  7. japa
  8. japa'd
  9. japaconine
  10. japaconitine
  11. japadog

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Jap. (page history and authors); Japan (page history and authors); Japanese (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.

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