Koban
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Koban is a noun meaning An oval gold coin in the Edo period of feudal Japan.
Meaning
An oval gold coin in the Edo period of feudal Japan.
More Meanings
- A small community police office or a police box, especially one in Japan.
Example Sentences
Every landlord hath two koban paid him for dinner, and three for supper and lodgings at night.
“Shall we say two koban for this evening—a measure of my desire to please a Lady of such merit?”
Personnel of kobans change each shift; they report for duty at a police station and fan out to the kobans.
It contained, as usual, nothing but an invitation to come to Edo to confer on matters respecting which it did not enter into any particulars, with an offer of three koban for the expenses of the journey.
Word Forms
- kobans
- kobang
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include kobang, coban, copang, cobang, itzibu, obang.
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