Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A school for training in Japanese arts of self-defense, such as judo and karate.
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- noun martial arts A training facility, usually led by one or more
sensei
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The name dojo comes from the Japanese term for a gathering place for martial-arts students.
Techies Get to Work at Hacker Dojo Geoffrey A. Fowler 2011
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The martial art may not matter, the morality instilled by the dojo is important here as well as the physical dominance of the instructor.
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The martial art may not matter, the morality instilled by the dojo is important here as well as the physical dominance of the instructor.
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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.
Midnight Sister Souljah 2008
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I’m what they call a dojo bum, hopping from art to art, never nesting.
Casanegra Blair Underwood with Tananarive Due 2007
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Some of the fighters and students in our dojo were our age.
Midnight Sister Souljah 2008
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In the past, it's been at Shihan Monty's Brooklyn dojo, which is the largest space, and also run by the senior-most teacher in our discipline, but Shihan Monty has recently moved and is in the process of remodeling the new space, and it's not quite ready for public consumption yet.
wise move kradical 2007
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My first day of training I walked into the dojo and realized that the heavy door looked as if it had come off an industrial freezer for a reason: the dojo was an abandoned meat locker.
King of the Cowboys Ty Murray 2003
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There's actually a mode called dojo mode, it's a tutorial or training mode, where you can learn how to improve your technique, brush up your technique, and learn to fight against really hardcore players as well.
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Mike Schramm 2010
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For example, this year we had a scala coding dojo, which is a relatively new concept.
Java News, Java Updates, Java Articles, Java Help - javacrawl.com 2010
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