shogun
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
Definition of shogun
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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The supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan.
“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.”
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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.
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