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shogoon

shogoon is the obsolete form of shogun.

Meaning of shogun

Noun

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, transl., A briefe relation of the persecution lately made against the Catholike christians, in the Kingdome of Iaponia, devided into two books

Forms of shogoon

pluralshogoons

Questions about shogoon

What is shogoon the obsolete form of?
Shogoon is the obsolete form of shogun.

Words near shogoon in the dictionary

  1. shoggly
  2. shoggoth
  3. shoggoths
  4. Shoghi
  5. shogi
  6. shogoon
  7. shogoonate
  8. shogoonates
  9. shogoons
  10. Shogren
  11. Shogrens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shogoon (page history and authors); shogun (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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