Hokkaido

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hokkaido \Hok*kai"do\ (h[o^]k*k[imac]"d[=o]), prop. n. [Jap.]
     The northernmost of the main islands of Japan. Together with
     the islands of Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku it forms the bulk
     of the land area of Japan.
     [PJC]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Hokkaido
       n : the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; north
           of Honshu [syn: {Ezo}, {Yezo}]