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Land of the Ascendant Sun

Land of the Ascendant Sun is the alternative form of Land of the Rising Sun.

Meaning of Land of the Rising Sun

Proper noun

the Land of the Rising Sun

  1. Japan (a country in Asia).
    • Ever since I was a young’n and my dad gave me a Godzilla figure, I’ve been a huge fan of the big green lizard from the Land of the Rising Sun.2007 December, Andy Salisbury, “Unleash the Beast”, in Nintendo Power, volume 222, page 34

Questions about Land of the Ascendant Sun

What is Land of the Ascendant Sun the alternative form of?
Land of the Ascendant Sun is the alternative form of Land of the Rising Sun.

Words near Land of the Ascendant Sun in the dictionary

  1. land of plenty
  2. Land of Punt
  3. Land of Smiles
  4. Land of Song
  5. Land of Steady Habits
  6. Land of the Ascendant Sun
  7. Land of the Dragon
  8. land of the free
  9. Land of the Leal
  10. land of the living
  11. Land of the Long White Cloud

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Land of the Ascendant Sun (page history and authors); Land of the Rising Sun (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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