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Kioto

Kioto is the rare spelling of Kyoto.

Meaning of Kyoto

Proper noun

Kyoto

  1. A prefecture on the island of Honshu, Japan.
  2. The capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan; and the country's former capital.
    • The aversion to public displays of eating persists today not only in Kyoto but also throughout the higher levels of Japanese society.1987 June 7, Amanda Mayer Stinchecum, “Shopper's World: Osaka's Flavorful Feast of Noodles”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 May 2017
  3. (international law) The Kyoto Protocol.
    • The merits and limitations of Kyoto have been subject to great discussion. Some criticize the regime for being too top-down, wasteful and infective as a means of tacking climate change (Prins and Rayner 2007; Victor 2001).2013, Stewart Lockie, David A. Sonnenfeld, Dana R. Fisher, Routledge International Handbook of Social and Environmental Change, Routledge, →ISBN, page 112

Questions about Kioto

What is Kioto the rare spelling of?
Kioto is the rare spelling of Kyoto.

Words near Kioto in the dictionary

  1. kioskers
  2. kiosklike
  3. kiosks
  4. kiosque
  5. kiosques
  6. Kioto
  7. kiotome
  8. kiotomes
  9. Kiou
  10. kioum
  11. kioums

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kioto (page history and authors); Kyoto (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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