Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of western Honshu, Japan, on an inlet of the Inland Sea west of Kobe. It is an industrial center.
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- proper noun a capital city of Okayama
prefecture ,Japan
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We were faxed this kind of map by a car-rental agency in Okayama, a midsize city between Kyoto and Hiroshima, where we decided to begin our trip.
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We were faxed this kind of map by a car-rental agency in Okayama, a midsize city between Kyoto and Hiroshima, where we decided to begin our trip.
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We were faxed this kind of map by a car-rental agency in Okayama, a midsize city between Kyoto and Hiroshima, where we decided to begin our trip.
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When Sakae Arimoto-Kobayashi's team at Okayama University in Japan fed these chemicals to mice, the DNA damage to their liver, lungs and kidneys was reduced by up to 85% if the mice drank non-alcoholic beer instead of water. [emphasis added]
Food and Drink 2009
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The airline began two regular domestic service routes—from Tokyo to Hiroshima and Okayama, both in western Japan—on Nov. 1.
ANA Investigates Glitch in Dreamliner Landing Gear Yoree Koh 2011
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Last month, ANA officials said the first Dreamliner route would be from Tokyo's Haneda airport to either Okayama or Hiroshima.
Boeing Dreamliner Completes Testing in Japan Peter Sanders 2011
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As the flight from Tokyo's Haneda airport approached Okayama airport western Japan on Sunday morning, an error message showed that the plane's landing gear hadn't properly deployed, forcing the pilots to try a second approach using manually lowered landing gear.
ANA Investigates Glitch in Dreamliner Landing Gear Yoree Koh 2011
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In the years after college, 26-year-old peripatetic playwright Jen Silverman traveled from Providence, R.I., to Okayama, Japan, throughout Egypt and Thailand, and back to Iowa City, Iowa—carrying the José Rivera essay "36 Assumptions about Writing Plays" wherever she went.
Tugging at Her Own Strings Lizzie Simon 2011
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ANA will also start using B787s on domestic flights linking Haneda and the western cities of Okayama and Hiroshima from Nov. 1.
ANA Details Plans for Boeing Dreamliner Hiroyuki Kachi 2011
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He attended the World's Student Christian Federation conference in Tokyo in April 1907 as a German delegate and visited a student center at Okayama.
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