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Tôkyô

Tôkyô is the alternative spelling of Tokyo.

Meaning of Tokyo

Proper noun

Tokyo

  1. A prefecture and capital city of Japan.
    • The first phase of the project, connecting Tokyo and Nagoya, is scheduled to be completed in 2027 and is expected to cut traveling time between those cities by half.2019 March 4, Maggie Hiufu Wong, “China to introduce new generation of driverless trains in 2020”, in CNN, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2020
    Synonyms:
    Edo, Yedo
  2. (metonymically) The Japanese government.
    • Tokyo required certain military technologies and some raw materials that its main European ally already possessed, and also needed new markets for its Southeast Asian products in order to keep the local economies alive.2017 June 8, Rotem Kowner, “When economics, strategy, and racial ideology meet: inter-Axis connections in the wartime Indian Ocean*”, in Journal of Global History, volume 12, number 2, Cambridge...

Questions about Tôkyô

What is Tôkyô the alternative spelling of?
Tôkyô is the alternative spelling of Tokyo.

Words near Tôkyô in the dictionary

  1. tête-à-têtes
  2. têtes-de-pont
  3. Tír na n-Óg
  4. Tír na nÓg
  5. Tórshavn
  6. Tôkyô
  7. tögrög
  8. tölt
  9. tölted
  10. tölting
  11. tölts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tôkyô (page history and authors); Tokyo (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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