Usually means: Traditional Japanese stringed musical instrument.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. koto: Merriam-Webster
  2. koto: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. koto: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. koto: Collins English Dictionary
  5. koto: Vocabulary.com
  6. Koto, koto: Wordnik
  7. Koto: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. koto: Wiktionary
  9. koto: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. koto: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. koto: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. koto: Dictionary.com
  13. KOTO (FM), Koto (band), Koto (disambiguation), Koto (film), Koto (instrument), Koto (kana), Koto (musical instrument), Koto (traditional clothing), Koto: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. koto: Rhymezone
  15. koto: FreeDictionary.org
  16. koto: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. koto: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. koto: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. koto: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Koto: Eastern Tea

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Basic Terms of Shinto (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Koto: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Koto)

noun:  (music) A Japanese stringed instrument having numerous strings, usually seven or thirteen, that are stretched over a convex wooden sounding board and are plucked with three plectra, worn on the thumb, index finger, and middle finger of one hand.
noun:  A special ward in Tokyo prefecture, Japan.

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