Dictionary Entry
japan
japan is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner; also, the varnish or lacquer used in japanning. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner; also, the varnish or lacquer used in japanning.
- 2adjective
Of or pertaining to Japan, or to the lacquered work of that country; as, Japan ware.
- 3transitive verb
To cover with a coat of hard, brilliant varnish, in the manner of the Japanese; to lacquer.
- 4transitive verb
To give a glossy black to, as shoes.
- 5noun
lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from the orient
- 6noun
lacquerware decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner with a glossy durable black lacquer
- 7noun
a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean
- 8noun
a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building
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- 9verb
coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan
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