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Definition of Hondo
1. Noun. The central and largest of the four main islands of Japan; between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean; regarded as the Japanese mainland.
Group relationships: Japan, Japanese Archipelago, Japanese Islands
Terms within: Capital Of Japan, Edo, Japanese Capital, Tokio, Tokyo, Yeddo, Yedo, Nagano, Nagoya, Omiya, Osaka, Yokohama, Kobe, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Toyohashi, Toyonaki, Toyota, Asama, Mount Asama
Generic synonyms: Island
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hondo
Literary usage of Hondo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory by Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1907)
"HOKI; province in the western end of hondo, facing the Sea of Japan, opposite
the Oki Islands. HOKKAIDO; Japanese name for the island of Yezo and its ..."
2. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"... of the lower etory and the dragon supports of the main roof arc modern addition«.
Note development of pare and flowing lines in the roofs. THE hondo AT ..."
3. Japan: Travels and Researches Undertaken at the Cost of the Prussian Government by Johann Justus Rein (1884)
"From Fuji in clear weather one overlooks a considerable tract of the broadest
and highest part of the island of hondo and of the whole country. ..."
4. Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Bookedited by Charles Morris edited by Charles Morris (1921)
"The temple of Janus, which south of hondo, is the principal lake, ... The island
of the chief foods, the principal varieties of hondo is traversed ..."
5. Irrigation Works Constructed by the United States Government by Arthur Powell Davis (1917)
"CHAPTER XIV hondo PROJECT The expenditures of the Reclamation Service to June
... DESCRIPTION The hondo River, so called, is a drainage line with about 100 ..."
6. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"Eor the Finale, the usual form is that of the hondo, which may be thus conceived: a
... The musical form, the hondo, is derived from the poetical form, ..."
7. Red Earth: Poems of New Mexico by Alice Corbin Henderson (1920)
"Pedro Montoya of Arroyo hondo Rides back on one burro and drives the other, With
a sack of ... Pedro Montoya of Arroyo hondo— If I envied any, I'd envy him! ..."
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