Nikko

[ neek-kaw; English nik-oh, nee-koh ]

/ ˈnik kɔ; English ˈnɪk oʊ, ˈni koʊ /

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noun

a city on central Honshu, in central Japan: famous for shrines and temples.

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How to use Nikko in a sentence

After I declined pastries festooned with sparkles, little Nikko pushed his glasses higher on his face and said, “We still have like nine miles to go today.”
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The people are exceptionally artistic, yet the stone "lions" at Nikko Temple look as much like bulldogs as lions.
Where Half The World Is Waking Up|Clarence Poe
Some of the so-called Imperial palaces around Nikko are most humble abodes, surrounded by a little strip of land.
Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan|Pter Vay
The cholera was upon us, and we decided to go to Nikko and spend a month there, near the F——s'.
An Artist's Letters From Japan|John La Farge

These were the former residences of princes, whom etiquette obliged to worship officially at Nikko.
An Artist's Letters From Japan|John La Farge
And so we got into Nikko as the sun was setting with the delicious sensation that at last we were in coolness and in shade.
An Artist's Letters From Japan|John La Farge

British Dictionary definitions for Nikko

Nikko

/ (ˈniːkəʊ) /

noun

a town in central Japan, on NE Honshu: a major pilgrimage centre, with a 4th-century Shinto shrine, a Buddhist temple (767), and the shrines and mausoleums of the Tokugawa shoguns. Pop: 17 527 (2002 est)

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