Shotokan
/ʃə(ʊ)ˈtəʊkan
/noun [mass noun]
The style of karate which is the most widespread in the UK and a number of other countries.I had already studied Shotokan karate for ten years when I was first introduced to the alternative fist formation....
- Jean Claude, when you were training in Shotokan karate back in Brussels, what did your training consist of?
- She gained much of her early athleticism from several years in a highly competitive swimming program and was very active in the martial arts, having earned a second-degree black belt in Shotokan karate.
Origin
Japanese, from shō 'right, true' + to 'way' + kan 'mansion'.
- notational
- notationally
- notationist
- notative
- notator
- not bat (or without batting) an eyelid (or eye or eyelash)
- not be able to do something a lick
- not be able to do something for toffee
- not be above
- not be an option
- not bear thinking about
- not before time
- not be fussy
- not-being
- (not) be myself
- not be oneself
- (not) be ourselves
- not be someone's first rodeo (or not be someone's first time at the rodeo)
- not best pleased
- (not) be themselves
- not be worth a damn
- (not) be yourself
- not blink an eye
- not breathe a word
- not but what