rōnin
/ɹˈoʊnɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative spelling of ronin.
Example Sentences
- "Boiling over with patriotism, bands of assassins, mostly rōnins, roamed the country, ready to slay foreigners, or the regent, and to die for the mikado."
- "After many secret consultations, it was determined among the rōnins that they should separate and dissemble."
- "The rōnin phenomenon of this era has been likened to a movement for social equality in a suppressive society. Many rōnin had been motivated more by a desire to wear the two swords and look like samurai than by lofty political aspirations. They fulfilled this desire by becoming rōnin under the false pretext of “loyalty.”"
- "The shōgun, aware of what they had done—and why–and also aware of the rōnins’ growing fame, allowed them to die through seppuku and be buried next to their lord."
- "Greey wrote and translated a number of plays and books, among them A Captive of Love (1886), a retelling of one of the dramatic and popular yomi hon (books for reading) by Takizawa Bakin, and Tamenaga Shunsui’s The Loyal Ronins: A Historical Romance (1884), the classic story of the forty-seven rōnins, which he translated with Shiuichiro Saito."