Definition of Sapporo

1. Noun. A commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido.

Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center
Group relationships: Ezo, Hokkaido, Yezo, Japan, Nihon, Nippon

Definition of Sapporo

1. Proper noun. a capital city of Hokkaido, Japan ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sapporo

Sapir
Saponaria
Saponaria officinalis
Saponaria vaccaria
Sapotaceae
Sappey
Sappey's fibres
Sappey's plexus
Sappey's veins
Sapphic ode
Sapphick
Sapphire
Sappho
Sapporo
Saprolegnia
Saprolegnia ferax
Saprolegniales
Sapsago
Sapta Sindhu
Saqqaq
Saqqara
Saqqarah
Sar
Sar.
Sara
Sara Teasdale
Sarabaite
Sarabaites

Literary usage of Sapporo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Terry's Japanese Empire by Thomas Philip Terry (1914)
"This practically circular route will enable the hurried traveler to get a cursory view of sapporo, the capital city; the interior of the island; ..."

2. A West-Pointer in the Land of the Mikado by Laura De Lany Garst (1913)
"The best place in Japan for a broken-down worker is sapporo, the capital city of the northern island of Yezo,—which is called Hokkaido, or " Northern Sea ..."

3. Japan Day by Day, 1877, 1878-79, 1882-83 by Edward Sylvester Morse (1917)
"... it looked like home in fact, and on inquiry I found it was really the capitol building of Yezo. The streets of sapporo are wide and cross one another at ..."

4. A Ribbon of Iron by Annette M. B. Meakin (1901)
"Chapter XXI ON A CARGO BOAT—FALLEN FROM THE SKY—sapporo JLJ OTEL Moscow was full of 'people waiting like ourselves for a steamer to Nagasaki, the Japanese ..."

5. Recent Christian Progress: Studies in Christian Thought and Work During the by Lewis Bayles Paton, Hartford Theological Seminary (1909)
"GEORGE MILLER ROWLAND, DD sapporo, JAPAN OUR topic is broader than the progress of Christian missions technically so called. It includes rather all God's ..."

6. The Far East Revisited: Essays on Political, Commercial, Social, and General by A. Gorton Angier (1908)
"Colonial Experiments—Agricultural Wealth—Fisheries—Minerals— Hakodate—Growth of Otaru—The Capital, sapporo—Muroran—Its Projected Iron and Steelworks. ..."

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