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Definition of Nipponese
1. Noun. A native or inhabitant of Japan.
Examples of category: Samurai, Ninja, Ninja, Samurai
Group relationships: Japan, Nihon, Nippon
Generic synonyms: Asian, Asiatic
Specialized synonyms: Ryukyuan, Jap, Nip, Geisha, Geisha Girl, Shogun
Derivative terms: Japanese
2. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Japan or its people or their culture or language. "Japanese cars"
Definition of Nipponese
1. Adjective. Japanese ¹
2. Proper noun. (dated) A Japanese (''person from Japan'') ¹
3. Proper noun. (dated) The Japanese language ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nipponese
Literary usage of Nipponese
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"That America will continue to abroad is far less than is the net increase erect
barriers against a free nipponese in the population every six months. ..."
2. The Mikado: Institution and Person : a Study of the Internal Political by William Elliot Griffis (1915)
"But the nipponese, instead of confronting a decaying civilization, came first in
... The nipponese for a thousand years glorified China as the mother of all ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Other war materials produced or manufactured in Japan, however, arc urgently
required for the continuation of the nipponese war adventure in China, ..."
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