Yamato

Meanings

1. Ancient Japan.
2. Any of several towns in Japan; see Wikipedia.
3. The imperial house which formerly ruled Japan from the province of Yamato; by extension, the dominant native ethnic group in Japan.
4. A male given name from Japanese.
5. A surname from Japanese.

1. A member of the Yamato court which formerly ruled Japan.
2. A member of an ethnic group of Japan, the predominant ethnic group of the islands.
3. One of a class of battleships used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War.

Etymology

From Japanese 大和 (Yamato), itself of uncertain derivation, but likely related to 山 (yama, “mountains”). See Proto-Japonic *yamatə.