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Sekigahara

Sekigahara proper noun: a town in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.

Proper noun

Sekigahara

  1. A town in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
    • Low, dark clouds shifted ominously across the sky. The night before, sometime between midnight and dawn, a blinding rain had drenched the plain of Sekigahara.1981 [1935-1939], Eiji Yoshikawa, translated by Charles S. Terry, Musashi, Harper & Row/Kodansha International, translation of 宮本武蔵 [Miyamoto Musashi] (in Japanese), →ISBN, page 2
  2. The Battle of Sekigahara, fought in 1600.

Origin of Sekigahara

Borrowed from Japanese 関(せき)ヶ(が)原(はら) (Sekigahara).

Questions about Sekigahara

What does Sekigahara mean?
Sekigahara means a town in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
What part of speech is Sekigahara?
Sekigahara is a proper noun.

Words near Sekigahara in the dictionary

  1. Sekhmet
  2. Sekhniashvili
  3. Sekhon
  4. Sekhons
  5. seki
  6. Sekigahara
  7. Sekigawa
  8. Sekiguchi
  9. sekihan
  10. sekikaic acid
  11. sekitori

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