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Definitions of samurai in various dictionaries:
noun - a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy
noun - feudal Japanese military aristocracy
The Japanese feudal military aristocracy.
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| Steve McQueen's "magnificent" movie was actually a remake of a film about 7 of these guys |
| In a 1956 film Takashi Shimura was one of these 7 warriors; John Belushi would have made 8 |
| These professional warriors wore 2 swords as a symbol of their caste |
| The Meiji reforms of the 19th century permanently abolished this Japanese warrior class |
| Warrior class that / brought haiku into flower / 4 centuries back |
| This term for a member of Japan's powerful warrior class comes from the Japanese word meaning "guard" |
| These warriors followed a code of conduct, called bushido, meaning "The way of the warriors" |
| In Vietnam lay down your sword & enjoy this energy drink named for a Japanese warrior |
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Samurai () were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan. * In Japanese, they are usually referred to as bushi (, [b.i]) or buke (). According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character was originally a verb meaning 'to wait upon', 'accompany persons' in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau. In both countries the terms were nominalized to mean 'those who serve in close attendance to the nobility', the Japanese term saburai being the nominal form of the verb." According to Wilson, an early reference to the word samurai appears in the Kokin Wakash (905914), the first imperial anthology of poems, completed in the first part of the 10th century.By the end of the 12th century, samurai became almost entirely synonymous with bushi, and the word was closely associated with the middle and upper echelons of the warrior class. The samurai were usually associated with a clan and their lord, |