Definitions for samurai

samurai sam·u·rai

Spelling: [sam-oo-rahy]
IPA: /ˈsæm ʊˌraɪ/

Samurai is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 195 anagrams from letters in samurai (aaimrsu).

Definitions for samurai

noun

  1. a member of the hereditary warrior class in feudal Japan.
  2. a retainer of a daimyo.

Origin of samurai

1720-30; Japanese, earlier samurafi to serve, equivalent to sa- prefix + morafi watchfully wait (frequentative of mor- to guard)

Examples for samurai

Ditching the bleach, he seeped manly confidence with what appears to be a samurai ponytail.

Society was a military aristocracy, the samurai the privileged class.

Evidently the affair was not serious enough for Captain West to be the samurai.

And with the samurai sword, we just wanted it to be awesome.

From frosted tips to the samurai pony, Sujay Kumar on what Federer's hair says about his game.

To them he recalled the samurai, with their noble traditions of utter self-sacrifice.

Perched atop a mountain of wavy, pulled-back hair is a mangled ball of manliness, a holdover from the days of the samurai.

Small wonder, in this tense passage of time, that I had forgotten the samurai.

It was not the samurai but the henchman who was weak and wrong.

It was the voice, not of the samurai riding the storm, but of the samurai calm and cold.

Word Value for samurai
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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