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tategyoji

tategyoji noun: either of the two highest-ranked gyoji who referee matches involving a yokozuna.

Noun

tategyoji (plural tategyoji)

  1. Either of the two highest-ranked gyoji who referee matches involving a yokozuna.

Forms of tategyoji

pluraltategyoji

Origin of tategyoji

Borrowed from Japanese 立行司 (tate-gyōji).

Questions about tategyoji

What does tategyoji mean?
Tategyoji means either of the two highest-ranked gyoji who referee matches involving a yokozuna.
What part of speech is tategyoji?
Tategyoji is a noun.
What is the plural of tategyoji?
The plural of tategyoji is tategyoji.

Words near tategyoji in the dictionary

  1. Tate's Cairn
  2. Tate's shrew rat
  3. Tate's three-striped dasyure
  4. tatee
  5. tatees
  6. tategyoji
  7. Tatem
  8. Tatems
  9. Tateng
  10. tater
  11. tater tot

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