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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024sho•gun /ˈʃoʊgən, -gʌn/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- World Historythe title of the chief military commanders of Japan from the 8th to 12th centuries.
sho•gun•ate /ˈʃoʊgənɪt, -ˌneɪt/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024sho•gun (shō′gən, -gun),USA pronunciation n. [Japanese Hist.]- World Historythe title applied to the chief military commanders from about the 8th centurya.d.to the end of the 12th century, then applied to the hereditary officials who governed Japan, with the emperor as nominal ruler, until 1868, when the shogunate was terminated and the ruling power was returned to the emperor.
Also, shō′gun. - Middle Chinese, equivalent., to Chinese jiāngjūn literally, lead the army
- Japanese shōgun, earlier shaũgun
- 1605–15
sho′gun•al, adj. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: shogun /ˈʃəʊˌɡuːn/ n - (from about 1192 to 1867) any of a line of hereditary military dictators who relegated the emperors to a position of purely theoretical supremacy
Etymology: 17th Century: from Japanese, from Chinese chiang chün general, from chiang to lead + chün army |