Meaning
浪人 (ろうにん, rounin) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “lordless samurai; unsuccessful examinee”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 9
息子は1年浪人しました
My son spent a year preparing to retake the university entrance exams.
私は今浪人生です。
I am now a student studying for entrance exams after failing them.
自称、京都浪人17歳。
He called himself a ronin (masterless samurai) of 17 years in Kyoto.
浪人.私は今浪人生です。
I am a student who failed the entrance exams and am studying to take them again.
その後、一時期浪人した。
Afterward, he became a ronin(masterless samurai) for a while.
八月、戸籍の作成、浮浪人を取り締まる。
In August, family registers were created and vagrants were regulated.
したがって牢人と浪人は正確には別義である。
Therefore, rōnin and rōnin are strictly speaking different in meaning.
その為浮浪する牢人を浪人と呼ぶようになった。
For that reason, wandering rōnin came to be called rōnin.
流浪人(流れ者の意味)の語源はここから来ている。
This is where the term rurōnin (meaning wanderer) comes from.