Shogun
WordNet
noun
(1) A hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From Japanese shōgun (将軍), from an abbreviation of Seii Taishogun (征夷大将軍) which means the general who overcomes the barbarians.
Quotations
- 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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- 1619: W. W. Gent (tr.), A briefe relation of the persecution lately made against the Catholike christians, in the Kingdome of Iaponia, devided into two books