shogun

From Japanese 将軍 (shōgun), from an abbreviation of 征夷大将軍 (Seii Taishogun) which means "General who overcomes the barbarians", from Middle Chinese 將軍 (tsjang-kjun "leader of troops", "general") (whence also Mandarin 將軍 (jiāngjūn)).

• enPR: shō'gŭn, IPA^(key): /ˈʃəʊɡʌn/
• Rhymes: -əʊɡən

shogun (plural shoguns or shogun)

1. 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 .

     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

• shogunate
• shogunal

• shogun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• snough

Borrowed from Japanese 将軍.

shogun

1. shogun

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔ.ɡun/

shogun m (plural shoguns)

1. shogun

• shogunal
• shogunat

• “shogun” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• syogun (standard)

From Japanese 将軍 (shōgun), from an abbreviation of 征夷大将軍 (seii taishogun) which means "general who overcomes the barbarians", from Middle Chinese 將軍 (tsjàng-kjun, “leader of troops, general”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃo.ɡun/
• Hyphenation: sho‧gun

shogun (plural shogun-shogun, first-person possessive shogunku, second-person possessive shogunmu, third-person possessive shogunnya)

1. (nonstandard) The supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan.

• sciogun

Borrowed from Japanese 将軍 (shōgun).

• IPA^(key): /ʃoˈɡun/, [ʃoˈɡun̺]
• Hyphenation: sho‧gùn

shogun m (invariable)

1. shogun

• shogunale
• shogunato

• siogun, szogun

From Japanese 将軍 (shōgun)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɕɔ.ɡun/, /ˈʂɔ.ɡun/

shogun m pers

1. (uncommon) shogun