I`d like an in-depth meaning of the word (Kamikaze)?

Answer 1

I think it means put the cat out I wont be home tonight

Answer 2

Kamikaze (神風) is a word of Japanese origin, which in the English language usually refers to suicide attacks carried out by Imperial Japan's military aviators against Allied shipping towards the end of the Pacific campaign of World War II, by crashing their planes into warships.

Answer 3

kamikaze
kamikaze (kä"mukä'zē) [key][Jap.,=divine wind], the typhoon that destroyed Kublai Khan's fleet, foiling his invasion of Japan in 1281. In World War II the term was used for a Japanese suicide air force composed of fliers who crashed their bomb-laden planes into their targets, usually ships. The kamikaze was first used extensively at Leyte Gulf and was especially active at Okinawa.

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ka•mi•ka•ze

Pronunciation: (kä"mi-kä'zē), [key]
—n.
1. (during World War II) a member of a special corps in the Japanese air force charged with the suicidal mission of crashing an aircraft laden with explosives into an enemy target, esp. a warship.
2. an airplane used for this purpose.
3. a person or thing that behaves in a wildly reckless or destructive manner: We were nearly run down by a kamikaze on a motorcycle.

—adj.
of, pertaining to, undertaken by, or characteristic of a kamikaze: a kamikaze pilot; a kamikaze attack.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

Answer 4

Kamikaze (神風) is a word of Japanese origin, which in the English language usually refers to suicide attacks carried out by Imperial Japan's military aviators against Allied shipping towards the end of the Pacific campaign of World War II, by crashing their planes into warships.

Air attacks were the predominant and best-known aspect of a wider use of—or plans for—suicide attacks by Japanese personnel, including soldiers carrying explosives, and boat crews (see Japanese Special Attack Units).

Since the end of the war, in 1945, the word kamikaze has often times been applied to other varieties of attack in which the attacker is sacrificed in the process. This is a wider variety of suicide attacks, in other historical contexts. Examples of these are the proposed use of Selbstopfer aircraft by Nazi Germany and various suicide bombings by terrorist organizations around the world, such as the September 11, 2001 attacks. Hyperbolic usage also includes non-fatal attacks which result in significant loss for attackers, like the end of their career.

Answer 5

Kamikaze is a word that comes from World War 2 when the Japanese fighter jets would crash into Allied Forces' ships (no matter what type, battleship, carrier, ect.) and is used as a word today meaning "one who gives himself up to the fullest extent."

Answer 6

Kamikaze means divine wind

Answer 7

Kami is the Japanese concept of the spirit. Kaze is the Japanese word for wind.

So as pointed out, Kamikaze means Divine wind, or spirit of the wind.

Answer 8

Andrew W was the first to get it right! He gives the history behind the word!

神風 = divine wind.

Just because a handful of Westerners think the word was invented as a name for suicide pilots, doesn't make it true..! It was already in use for centuries before WWII.

Answer 9

A pilot of the Japanese military that was used to fly suicide missions into Allied ships during World War 2.
(Or a drink)

Answer 10

As well as the history of the word, there is a quite in depth look at the origin of it on good old Wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikazi

...not sure if this is enough or a good start perhaps.

Answer 11

A japanese pilot during World War 2 who was trained to make a suicidal crash attack especially towards ships.