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Edo

proper nounproper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɛdəʊ//
  • United States//ˈɛdoʊ//

A state of Nigeria in the South South geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Benin City.

proper noun

  1. 1

    historicalFormer name of Tokyo: the capital city of Japan

Etymology

From Japanese 江戸 (えど, Edo, literally “cove entrance”).

proper noun

  1. 1

    A state of Nigeria in the South South geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Benin City.

  2. 2

    The people of Edo State.

  3. 3

    The Volta-Niger language spoken primarily by these people.

Etymology

From Edo Ẹ̀dó.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).