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Definitions for Shoguns
[1] the title applied to the chief military commanders from about the 8th century a.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.
[2] (from 794 ad ) a chief military commander
[3] (from about 1192 to 1867) any of a line of hereditary military dictators who relegated the emperors to a position of purely theoretical supremacy
Words related to Shoguns
shogunpresident, generalissimo
Words nearby Shoguns
hoestring tackle, shoetree, shofar, shog, shogi, shogun, shogun bond, shogunate, shoguns, shohet, shoji
Origin of Shoguns
1605–15; < Japanese shōgun, earlier shaũgun < Middle Chinese, equivalent, to Chinese jiāngjūn literally, lead the army
Other words from Shoguns
sho·gun·al , adjective
Word origin for Shoguns
C17: from Japanese, from Chinese chiang chün general, from chiang to lead + chün army
Synonyms for Shoguns
C in C, President, U.S. President, captain general, generalissimo