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# edo

«edo» in Mova's school dictionary: **the old name of the city of Tokyo in Japan, before 1868** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a name: Edo)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) Edo is the old name of the city of Tokyo in Japan, before 1868. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edo/#m1)

2) (a name) The Edo period (1603–1868) was a time in Japanese history when shoguns ruled from Edo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edo/#m2)

3) (a name) Edo is also a people and a language of southern Nigeria, around Benin City, and a state in Nigeria. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edo/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history and geography lessons, «Edo» appears in topics about Japan (samurai, shoguns, woodblock prints) and about Nigeria (the Kingdom of Benin and the Benin Bronzes); it is not an ordinary English word; phrases: «Edo period», «Edo Japan», «Edo State».

### examples

- Tokyo was called Edo until 1868. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edo/#x1)
- Samurai lived in the Edo period. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edo/#x2)
- Hokusai made his famous wave print in the Edo period. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edo/#x3)
- The Edo people live in southern Nigeria. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edo/#x4)
- The Benin Bronzes were made by Edo artists. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edo/#x5)
- We made a timeline of Edo Japan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edo/#x6)

### note

A proper noun: write Edo with a capital E. Pronounced EH-doh. Not an English word with a general meaning.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «edo» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edo/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.