Nipponize
See also: nipponize
English
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[edit]Nipponize (third-person singular simple present Nipponizes, present participle Nipponizing, simple past and past participle Nipponized)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become Japanese, as to customs, culture, or style.
- Synonyms: Japanize, Japanicize
- 1913 January, “A Great Crime Against Justice”, in Doremus Scudder, editor, The Friend, volume LXXI, number 1, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii: Hawaiian Board Book Rooms, page 4, column 2:
- Christianity should be Japan’s greatest ally in Nipponizing its new territory.
- 2012, “Introduction to the Focus Edition”, in William Shakespeare, edited by Kenneth S[prague] Rothwell, The Tragedy of King Lear (New Kittredge Shakespeare), Newburyport, Mass.: Focus Publishing/R[on] Pullins Company, →ISBN, page xxii:
- The movie “Nipponizes” King Lear within the protocols of the formalistic patterns of traditional “Noh” drama.
- 2017, Paul Theroux, “Best Man”, in Mother Land, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Eamon Dolan Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 361:
- He invited me for a meal. The table was set with plates and chopsticks, little dishes of soy sauce and wasabi paste; bigger platters of sushi, sashimi, tempura, and dumplings; bowls of miso soup. “I have been thoroughly Nipponized,” Floyd said.
- (transitive) To convert to katakana or to enable to work with the Japanese script.
- (transitive) To translate into Japanese.
Translations
[edit]to make or become Japanese
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to convert to katakana or to enable to work with the Japanese script
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to translate into Japanese
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