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judo

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈd͡ʒuːdəʊ//
  • United States//ˈd͡ʒudoʊ//

A Japanese martial art and sport adapted from jujitsu.

noun

  1. 1

    A Japanese martial art and sport adapted from jujitsu.

    He started doing judo at the age of eight.

    A member of Taiwan's indigenous Amis tribe, Kuo showed sporting talent at an early age, training in judo, basketball and athletics in her native Taitung county.

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 柔(じゅう)道(どう) (jūdō, literally “the soft way”).

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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).