mikado
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Japanese 御門 (mikado), from 御 (mi, “honorable”) + 門 (kado, “gate, portal”).
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mikado (countable and uncountable, plural mikados)
- (history) A former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period.
- (literary, countable) Any emperor of Japan.
- Synonym: tenno
- The mikados of Japan are its emperors.
- 1885, Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado:
- Our great Mikado, virtuous man,
When he to rule our land began,
Resolved to try a plan whereby
Young men might best be steadied.
- A game of skill, in which identically shaped (but differently colored and valued) wooden sticks must be removed from a pile without disturbing the remaining stack.
- Synonym: pick-up sticks
- A fabric having a stiff twill weave.
Translations edit
emperor of Japan
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a game of skill
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mikado m (plural mikado's, diminutive mikadootje n)
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mikado m (plural mikado's, diminutive mikadootje n)
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mikado (accusative singular mikadon, plural mikadoj, accusative plural mikadojn)
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Japanese 御門 (mikado), from 御 (mi, “honorable”) + 門 (kado, “gate, portal”).
Pronunciation edit
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mikado m (plural mikados)
- (history) mikado, a former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period
- (literary) any emperor of Japan
- mikado (game of skill)
Further reading edit
- “mikado”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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mikado
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mikado m (plural mikados)
Further reading edit
- “mikado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014