japanese

1. 1.

   of or relating to or characteristic of Japan or its people or their culture or language

   “the Japanese Emperor”

   “Japanese cars”

   SynonymsNipponese

Other forms of japanese

plural

japaneses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about japanese

What does japanese mean?

japanese means "a native or inhabitant of Japan". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in japanese?

japanese has 3 syllables: jap-a-nese. The stress falls on "nese". In IPA it is /ˌdʒæpəˈniz/.

What is another word for japanese?

Close synonyms include Nipponese, Nipponese. 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 japanese a common word?

japanese is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with japanese?

9 words rhyme with japanese. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.