Definition of Tenno

1. Noun. The emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader the emperor is called tenno.

Exact synonyms: Mikado
Category relationships: Japanese
Generic synonyms: Emperor

Definition of Tenno

1. n. Lit., King of Heaven; -- a title of the emperor of Japan as the head of the Shinto religion.

Definition of Tenno

1. Proper noun. Japan’s titular head of state and the head of the Japanese imperial family. The emperor of Japan. ¹

2. Noun. Japan’s titular head of state and the head of the Japanese imperial family. The emperor of Japan. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tenno

1. the formal title of the emperor of Japan as divine leader [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenno

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tenno (current term)
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Literary usage of Tenno

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

1. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1893)
"reign was the cyclic year was Kiah-yin, which would he in the time of Chow Hi Waug of China.1" His successor was Sui-zei tenno, then An-nei tenno, ..."

2. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1893)
"reign was the cyclic year was Kiah-yin, which would be in the time of Chow Hi Wang of China.1" His successor was Sui-zei tenno, then An-nei tenno, ..."

3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"Tho first two volumes contain the mythological period; the remaining bring the annals of the mikados down to the llth year of the empress Jido tenno (699). ..."

4. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"The first two volumes contain the mythological period; the remaining bring the annals of the mikados down to the llth year of the empress Jido tenno (699). ..."

5. Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697 by William George Aston (1896)
"The details are manifestly fictitious, some of them, as the quotations from Chinese books put mto the mouth of Jimmu tenno, demonstrably so. ..."

6. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The first two volumes contain the mythological period ; the remaining bring the annals of the mikados down to the llth year of the empress Jido tenno (699). ..."

7. The Story of Japan by Robert Van Bergen (1897)
"The foreign ministers now proposed that they should present their credentials, as the papers appointing them are called, to the tenno in person, ..."

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