shogun
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See also: shōgun
Alternative forms
- shōgun
- (obsolete) xogun
Etymology
From Japanese 将軍 (shōgun), itself the short form of 征夷大将軍 (seii taishōgun, literally “general who overcomes the barbarians”), ultimately from Middle Chinese. Doublet of jiangjun.
Pronunciation
Noun
shogun (plural shoguns or shogun)
- The supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan.
- 1619, W. W. Gent, transl., A briefe relation of the persecution lately made against the Catholike christians, in the Kingdome of Iaponia, devided into two books:
- The third is the Shogun who reygneth at the preſent, and hath rayſed the perſecution (whereof this booke intreateth) againſt the Chriſtians, and he as it ſeemeth is acknowledged as Lord of all the threeſcore and ſix Kingdomes of Iaponia.
Derived terms
Translations
supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan
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See also
Anagrams
Etymology
Noun
shogun
- shogun
Declension
Declension of shogun
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
shogun m (plural shoguns)
Derived terms
- shogunal
- shogunat
Further reading
- “shogun”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
shogun (first-person possessive shogunku, second-person possessive shogunmu, third-person possessive shogunnya)
- Nonstandard spelling of syogun.
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