Definitions for ronin

ronin ro·nin

Spelling: [roh-nin]
IPA: /ˈroʊ nɪn/

Ronin is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in ronin (innor).

Definitions for ronin

noun

  1. a samurai who no longer serves a daimyo, or feudal lord.

Origin of ronin

From the Japanese word rōnin literally, ‘wave man’ (understood as ‘a man tossed around like a wave’)

Examples for ronin

And the reason she built the temple was that she might pray for the soul of the ronin whom the sight of her beauty had ruined.

Born about 1680 he, by birth a Samurai, became a ronin, and entered the studio of Kiyonobu.

We should have the story of the Forty-seven ronin, not a Japanese stage version, but a work from the source-material.

Thus the forty-seven ronin were pre-eminently "righteous" when they debauched themselves with every swinish vice.

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