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mikado
[ mi-kah-doh ]
noun
- (sometimes initial capital letter) a title of the emperor of Japan.
- (initial capital letter, italics) an operetta (1885) by Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
- (initial capital letter) a steam locomotive having a two-wheeled front truck, eight driving wheels, and a two-wheeled rear truck.
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Example Sentences
In the race she has to run, moreover, the Mikado-land has no such advantages as many of our people have been led to believe.
On the whole, the Mikado's subjects seem already to count themselves virtual masters of the country.
At the end of her cruise the war was over, and she was sold to the Mikado of Japan, whose flag she now carries.
He was treated by the army surgeons, and sent home to Japan to get well, and then he was decorated for his bravery by the Mikado.
Formerly this body of belief was the national faith, the Mikado, the direct descendant of the early gods, being its head on earth.
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