Honshu

2 definitions found

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

  Honshu \Hon"shu\ prop. n. [Jap.]
     the main island of Japan. Together with the islands of
     Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku it forms the bulk of the land
     area of Japan.
     [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Honshu
       n : 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 [syn: {Hondo}]