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Definition of "dojo" [dojo]

  • A school for training in Japanese arts of self-defense, such as judo and karate. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "dojo" in a sentence
  • "The name dojo comes from the Japanese term for a gathering place for martial-arts students."
  • "The martial art may not matter, the morality instilled by the dojo is important here as well as the physical dominance of the instructor."
  • "My teacher, who students called Sensei, was a thirty-something-year-old Japanese man who owned a nice-sized space that we called the dojo."
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