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浪人 [ichi1,news1,nf15] ；牢人 [rK]
【ろうにん [ichi1,news1,nf15] 】

[n,vs,vi]
▶ ronin
▶ masterless samurai

Cross references:
	⇐ see: 1304850 仕官【しかん】 2. finding a new lord or master to serve (of a ronin)

(浪人 only) [n,vs,vi]
▶ high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination

Cross references:
	⇐ see: 1728050 １浪【いちろう】 1. failing college entrance exams and retaking them a year later
	⇐ see: 2848778 多浪生【たろうせい】 1. aspiring university student who has failed the entrance examinations at least twice
	⇐ see: 2836795 浪【ろう】 1. person who has spent X years after graduating high school attempting to get admitted to (a specific) university
	⇐ see: 2043140 仮面浪人【かめんろうにん】 1. student who is trying to get into their preferred college while already enrolled at another college
	⇐ see: 1560790 浪人生【ろうにんせい】 1. student waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination

(浪人 only) [n]
▶ person out of work
▶ jobless person

Cross references:
	⇐ see: 1263890 現役【げんえき】 2. student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try

(浪人 only) [n] [arch]
《orig. meaning》
▶ wanderer
▶ drifter

Conjugations

History:

12.	A 2021-12-08 09:18:41 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	mk 浪人 827934 牢人 5101
	Diff:	@@ -11,0 +12 @@ +<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf> @@ -21,0 +23 @@ +<pos>&vi;</pos> @@ -28,0 +31 @@ +<pos>&vi;</pos>
11.	A 2020-05-12 14:23:46 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Diff:	@@ -22 +21,0 @@ -<gloss>rōnin</gloss>
10.	A* 2020-05-12 09:18:58 Opencooper
	Refs:	OED; M-W; Collins; etc.
	Comments:	I don't think we need the romanization with the macron. "Ronin" is in English dictionaries, [0] and it's strange to have both forms. [0]: In fact, it's present in the 1913 edition of Webster's.
9.	A 2018-10-09 18:25:58 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
8.	A* 2018-10-09 15:36:20 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Diff:	@@ -30 +30 @@ -<gloss>waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination</gloss> +<gloss>high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination</gloss>
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7.	A 2018-05-22 11:14:09 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	rōnin/ronin will be messy in EDICT-land because the UTF-8->EUC conversion changes ō to o.
6.	A* 2018-05-21 08:26:39 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	daij gg5 daijs: １古代、本籍地を離れ、他国を流浪している者。浮浪人。
	Comments:	I don't think the "wandering" part is necessary in the first sense. Maybe the often wandered about (?) but it's not explicitly mentioned in either daij, gg5 or jawiki, though "wanderer" is the original meaning. _ GG5's definition of the 2nd sense is much more detailed/precise than ours: （学生の） a high-school graduate who failed to enter a college and is waiting for another chance; a student who failed the entrance examination and has been cramming to try again; a would-be but disappointed university entrant. They also gloss it as a "student" rather than the "waiting" said student does. daijr is more general: "進学や就職に失敗し，次の機会を待ってその準備をすること。また，その人。" but then again they don't have a separate sense for "person out of work" like we and GG5 do. _
	Diff:	@@ -24 +24,7 @@ -<gloss g_type="expl">wandering samurai without a master to serve</gloss> +<gloss>masterless samurai</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<stagk>浪人</stagk> +<pos>&n;</pos> +<pos>&vs;</pos> +<gloss>waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination</gloss> @@ -29,0 +36 @@ +<gloss>jobless person</gloss> @@ -34,2 +41,4 @@ -<pos>&vs;</pos> -<gloss>waiting for another chance to enter a university</gloss> +<misc>&arch;</misc> +<s_inf>orig. meaning</s_inf> +<gloss>wanderer</gloss> +<gloss>drifter</gloss>
5.	A* 2018-05-21 08:11:24 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Do we have a policy on this? In English, "ronin" will obviously be more common than "rōnin".
	Diff:	@@ -22,0 +23 @@ +<gloss>ronin</gloss>
4.	A 2018-04-24 02:27:09 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3.	A* 2018-04-23 21:25:14 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	gg5, daij
	Comments:	I don't think any of the senses are [adj-no].
	Diff:	@@ -22,3 +22,7 @@ -<pos>&adj-no;</pos> -<gloss>ronin</gloss> -<gloss>wandering samurai without a master to serve</gloss> +<gloss>rōnin</gloss> +<gloss g_type="expl">wandering samurai without a master to serve</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<stagk>浪人</stagk> +<pos>&n;</pos> +<gloss>person out of work</gloss> @@ -30,8 +33,0 @@ -<pos>&adj-no;</pos> -<gloss>out of work</gloss> -</sense> -<sense> -<stagk>浪人</stagk> -<pos>&n;</pos> -<pos>&vs;</pos> -<pos>&adj-no;</pos>
2.	A 2013-04-26 21:55:53 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1.	A* 2013-04-26 13:46:41 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	daijs nipp　wiki nikk
	Diff:	@@ -9,0 +9,3 @@ +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>牢人</keb> @@ -24,0 +27,1 @@ +<stagk>浪人</stagk> @@ -30,0 +34,1 @@ +<stagk>浪人</stagk>

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