amaterasu omikami

1. 1.

   central deity of Shinto; goddess personifying the sun and ancestress of the rulers of Japan

   SynonymsAmaterasu

   BroaderJapanese deity

Questions about amaterasu omikami

What does amaterasu omikami mean?

amaterasu omikami means "central deity of Shinto; goddess personifying the sun and ancestress of the rulers of Japan".

What is another word for amaterasu omikami?

Close synonyms include Amaterasu. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is amaterasu omikami a common word?

amaterasu omikami is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.