mikado

Borrowed from Japanese 御門 (mikado), from 御 (mi, “honorable”) +‎ 門 (kado, “gate, portal”).

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈkɑːdəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ

mikado (countable and uncountable, plural mikados or mikado)

1. (history) A former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period.
2. (literary, countable) Any emperor of Japan.

   Synonym: tenno

   The mikados of Japan are its emperors.

   • 1878 July 1, “The Mythology and Religious Worship of the Ancient Japanese”, in The Westminster Review, volume CX, number CCXVII; New Series, volume LIV, number I, London: Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC, page 30:

     An interval of eighty years, occupied by two mikado of whose doings nothing is recorded, brings us to the celebrated female sovereign who invaded and conquered Korea.

   • 1885, Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado:

     Our great Mikado, virtuous man,
     When he to rule our land began,
     Resolved to try a plan whereby
     Young men might best be steadied.

3. A game of skill, in which identically shaped (but differently colored and valued) wooden sticks must be removed from a pile without disturbing the remaining stack.

   Synonym: pick-up sticks

4. A fabric having a stiff twill weave.

• Chrysanthemum Throne

Borrowed from Japanese 御門.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.kaːˌdoː/

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• Hyphenation: mi‧ka‧do

mikado m (plural mikado's, diminutive mikadootje n)

1. mikado, pick-up sticks (game of skill)

• IPA^(key): /ˌmiˈkaː.doː/

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• Hyphenation: mi‧ka‧do

mikado m (plural mikado's, diminutive mikadootje n)

1. (history) mikado, a former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period
2. (literary) any emperor of Japan

From Japanese みかど (mikado).

• IPA^(key): /miˈkado/
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: mi‧ka‧do

mikado (accusative singular mikadon, plural mikadoj, accusative plural mikadojn)

1. mikado

Borrowed from Japanese 御門 (mikado), from 御 (mi, “honorable”) +‎ 門 (kado, “gate, portal”).

• IPA^(key): /mi.ka.do/

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mikado m (plural mikados)

1. (history) mikado, a former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period
2. (literary) any emperor of Japan
3. mikado (game of skill)

• “mikado”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

mikado

1. Rōmaji transcription of みかど

Borrowed from Japanese 御門 (mikado), from 御 (mi, “honorable”) +‎ 門 (kado, “gate, portal”).

mikado n (uncountable)

1. mikado

Borrowed from Japanese 御門 (mikado), from 御 (mi, “honorable”) +‎ 門 (kado, “gate, portal”).

• IPA^(key): /miˈkado/ [miˈka.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: mi‧ka‧do

mikado m (plural mikados)

1. mikado

• “mikado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024