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shogun

/ˈʃəʊɡʌn/

shogun noun: the supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan.

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

shogun meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam and Arabic

shogun in Hindi

supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan
शोगुन śogun

shogun in Marathi

supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan
शोगुन śogun, शोउगुन śougun

shogun in Malayalam

ജപ്പാനീസ് സർവ്വസൈന്യാധിപൻ

shogun in Arabic

supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan
شُوغُون šogun
More languagesFewer languages
shogun in Malay
syogun
shogun in Indonesian
syogun
shogun in Thai
โชกุน
shogun in Vietnamese
shōgun

Forms of shogun

pluralshoguns
pluralshogun
alternative formshōgun
alternative formxogun

Plural of shogun: shoguns or shogun

Origin of shogun

From Japanese 将軍 (shōgun), itself the short form of 征夷大将軍 (seii taishōgun, literally “general who overcomes the barbarians”), ultimately from Middle Chinese. Doublet of jiangjun.

Words formed from shogun

Words that rhyme with shogun

Questions about shogun

What does shogun mean?
Shogun means the supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan.
What is shogun in Hindi?
Shogun in Hindi is शोगुन (śogun). See Shogun meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is shogun?
Shogun is a noun.
How do you pronounce shogun?
Shogun is pronounced /ˈʃəʊɡʌn/.
What is the plural of shogun?
The plural of shogun is shoguns.

Words near shogun in the dictionary

  1. shogoonates
  2. shogoons
  3. Shogren
  4. Shogrens
  5. shogs
  6. shogun
  7. shogunal
  8. shogunally
  9. shogunate
  10. shogunates
  11. Shogunite

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shogun (page history and authors); shogun (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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