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yangbans

yangbans is the plural of yangban.

Meaning of yangban

Noun

yangban (plural yangbans or yangban)

  1. (historical) A member of the ruling class of male Confucian intellectuals in Korea at and before the time of the Korean Empire.
    • One yangban, Yi Sŭng-hun, provided a new answer to this crisis of authority: while in Beijing serving as a diplomat, he was baptized a Catholic Christian and went home to propagate his faith.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 900

Questions about yangbans

What is yangbans the plural of?
Yangbans is the plural of yangban.

Words near yangbans in the dictionary

  1. Yang-tzu
  2. Yang-tzŭ
  3. Yanga
  4. yangambin
  5. yangban
  6. yangbans
  7. Yangcheng
  8. Yangchow
  9. Yangchu
  10. Yangchüan
  11. yanged

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