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Tennou

Tennou is the alternative form of tenno.

Meaning of tenno

Noun

tenno (plural tennos)

  1. The emperor of Japan as head of state and the head of the Japanese imperial family.
    Synonyms:
    mikado, God Emperor

Origin of Tennou

Romanization of Japanese 天皇 (てんのう, ten’nou).

Questions about Tennou

What is Tennou the alternative form of?
Tennou is the alternative form of tenno.

Words near Tennou in the dictionary

  1. Tenniswood
  2. Tenniswoods
  3. tennisy
  4. tenno
  5. tennos
  6. Tennou
  7. tenny
  8. Tennys
  9. Tennyson
  10. Tennyson Point
  11. Tennysonian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tennou (page history and authors); tenno (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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