shinto
IPA: ʃˈɪntoʊ
Root Word: Shinto
noun
- Formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to, Shintoism.
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Examples of "shinto" in Sentences
- Or the shinto shrines a mile or two from Pearl Harbor?
- Possibly a shinto smith—that is, someone after sixteen hundred—merely duplicated the shape of the koto blade.
- Koto blades were generally thinner and more graceful and sharper, meaning livelier in the hand than shinto blades.
- I haven't prayed at the Toshiba-EMI shinto shrine this week, so no full download for fear of company ninjas getting ahold of me, but you can listen to almost the entire album here.
- This geisha army can transform into tanks, their nipples can squirt acid or propel rapid-fire bullets, their mouths can contain chainsaws or frog-tongue samurai swords and they are aided by a giant shinto temple robot.
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