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6 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68
originFrom Japanese 将軍 (shōgun), itself the short form of 征夷大将軍 (seii taishōgun, literally “general who overcomes the barbarians”), ultimately from Middle Chinese. Doublet of jiangjun.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0