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n. 1 A member of the Yamato court which formerly ruled Japan; by extension, a member of the dominant native ethnic group of Japan. 2 One of a class of (l en battleship battleships) used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. n. 1 (lb en historical) Ancient Japan. 2 Any of several towns in Japan; see (w Yamato#Geography Wikipedia). 3 The imperial house which formerly ruled Japan from the province of Yamato; by extension, the dominant native ethnic group in Japan.
Wikipedia
was originally the area around today's Sakurai City in Nara Prefecture of Japan. Later the term was used as the name of the province and became by extension a name for the whole of Japan.
Several ships have been named :
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, corvette of the , launched in 1885 and used as a prison from 1935. Sunk by a typhoon in 1945
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, a class of 2 Japanese battleships of World War II
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, lead ship of the Yamato class, named after the Yamato Province
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- Yamato Maru, originally the that was built in 1914 and transported thousands of Italians to Ellis Island; sold to the Japanese in the 1920s and renamed Yamato Maru, sunk by a US submarine in 1943 in the Philippines.
- Yamato 1, the first working prototype of a ship with a magnetohydrodynamic drive
is a 2005 Japanese war film. It was directed by Junya SatÅ and is based on a book by Jun Henmi. With a framing story set in the present day, by flashbacks it tells the story of the crew of the World War II Japanese battleship Yamato, concentrating on the ship's demise during Operation Ten-Go.
is a Japanese professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist, better known by his ring name Yamato (stylized in all capital letters), who works for Dragon Gate.
Usage examples of "yamato".
Two of his battleships were the seventy-thousand-ton monsters Musashi and Yamato, with secret eighteen-inch guns built in violation of arms limitation treaties, and never yet fired at a foe.
Yamato had lost his car keys that morning and he wanted to ask Madame de Bollix where they were.
Krite, Yamato and I could briefly visit Madame de Bollix if he wanted to waste his money that way.
Yamato pulled his wallet from his pants and handed Madame de Bollix a twenty and three ones.
Madame de Bollix sighed loudly and leaned her head forward, slowly opening her eyes and staring at Yamato and me with a kind of grim confusion.
Yamato sat next to me, most of the time holding the little gift box with the earrings in it, like a mystical artifact from his heart I had a gift box, too, with an onyx cameo showing a smiling woman, who I hoped would be Natelle.
Yamato said, staring at someone wearing some big blue box over their head and torso.
Including Yamato, who always seemed willing to turn the other cheek and let someone slug the president just once.