Nagoya

American  

[nuh-goi-uh, nah-gaw-yah] / nəˈgɔɪ ə, ˈnɑ gɔˌyɑ /

noun

1. a city on S Honshu, in central Japan.

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Nagoya British  

/ ˈnɑːɡəʊjə /

noun

1. a city in central Japan, on S Honshu on Ise Bay: a major industrial centre. Pop: 2 109 681 (2002 est)

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Example Sentences

Pokka Sapporo Food & Beverage, based in Nagoya, also said in March it would sell its 40,000-machine operation to Osaka-based Lifedrink Co.

From Barron's • Apr. 26, 2026

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan previously introduced an iron based substitute, but that earlier version depended on large quantities of costly chiral ligands.

From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2026

Brazil is a signatory to the 2014 Nagoya Protocol, an international treaty on sharing benefits from genetic resources.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

He earned his PhD in 2006 from the Graduate School of Science at Nagoya University, where he studied the circadian clock in cyanobacteria.

From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026

He became as circumspect as he had previously been careless, and he subsequently erected to the memory of his brave monitor a temple which may be seen to this day by visitors to Nagoya.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)