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shoguns

shoguns is the plural 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

Questions about shoguns

What is shoguns the plural of?
Shoguns is the plural of shogun.

Words near shoguns in the dictionary

  1. shogunally
  2. shogunate
  3. shogunates
  4. Shogunite
  5. Shogunites
  6. shoguns
  7. Shohei
  8. shohet
  9. shohetim
  10. shohets
  11. Shohn

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