/?s?m.?.ra?/pluralsamuraiorsamuraisamemberof amilitaryclassof highsocialrankfrom the 11th to the 19thcenturyin Japan:（日本11至19世纪的）武士Samuraiwarriors武士SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesSoldiers in the past
samuraiThe 'deviants' of that time were mainly people in the service of thesamurai, joined by masterlesssamurai.From theCambridge English CorpusSince the early nineteenth century the borderlines between estates, even betweensamuraiand merchants, became permeable.From theCambridge English CorpusFrom the late sixteenth century until the early seventeenth century,samuraiwere separated from farming communities throughout the country.From theCambridge English CorpusBecause of the long peace most of thesamuraibecame administrators rather than actually serving as fighters.From theCambridge English CorpusAmong thesamuraiit was always the required form.From theCambridge English CorpusThis ideology, however, did not always protect merchants fromsamuraiand authorities.From theCambridge English CorpusIf an estimated 500,000samuraiis added, the total population comes to about one million.From theCambridge English CorpusIn the pre-modern period statistics are especially unreliable as official population records did not count thesamurai.From theCambridge English CorpusMany served as employment agents who providedsamuraiemployers with labourers, and they had many followers under them.From theCambridge English CorpusWhile clearly the injured party, the merchants had little recourse against the rulingsamuraiclass.From theCambridge English CorpusAlthough thesamuraiclass was dysfunctional by their fathers' time, they were still strongly attached to the moral training and ideology nurtured for centuries in the samurai tradition.From theCambridge English CorpusIn order to serve the needs of this largesamuraipopulation, for house construction and regular household consumption, merchants and artisans also congregated in the city in large numbers.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/samurai##
