samurai
noun
sam·u·rai ˈsa-mə-ˌrī 
ˈsam-yə-
plural samurai
1
: a military retainer of a Japanese daimyo practicing the code of conduct of Bushido
2
: the warrior aristocracy of Japan
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web And the Clint Eastwood spaghetti Westerns were being made simultaneous to the Toshiro Mifune samurai movies. 
Carson Burton, Variety, 15 July 2022 Trek to Yomi is most definitely the third of these options, with a setting, plot and style that are all distinctly channeling both classic samurai movies as well as real Japanese history. Josh Chesler, SPIN, 13 Apr. 2022 Rashomon Effect, named after Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film that offered alternate and mutually contradictory accounts of a samurai’s murder. Lance Morrow, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022 The entire film takes place in a marsh where two women, a mother and a daughter-in-law, make their living by murdering samurai who wander into their swampy territory and selling the warriors' armor for cash. Katie Rife, EW.com, 30 July 2022 Officers had gone to his home and found 16 knives in a tin-can lunchbox, plus a samurai-style sword and a dagger, in Crimo’s bedroom closet. Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2022 Hank, of course, will ultimately win over the feline residents of Kakamucho (in addition to learning to wield a samurai sword with slashing finesse). Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 July 2022 Manfredonia allegedly attacked DeMers and another 80-year-old man on Mirtl Road with a samurai sword, records show. Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 23 June 2022 But after being captured, Algren falls in love with the samurai lifestyle and tradition, and begins to believe in the noble warriors’ ways of life. cleveland, 11 June 2022 See More
Carson Burton, Variety, 15 July 2022 Trek to Yomi is most definitely the third of these options, with a setting, plot and style that are all distinctly channeling both classic samurai movies as well as real Japanese history. Josh Chesler, SPIN, 13 Apr. 2022 Rashomon Effect, named after Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film that offered alternate and mutually contradictory accounts of a samurai’s murder. Lance Morrow, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022 The entire film takes place in a marsh where two women, a mother and a daughter-in-law, make their living by murdering samurai who wander into their swampy territory and selling the warriors' armor for cash. Katie Rife, EW.com, 30 July 2022 Officers had gone to his home and found 16 knives in a tin-can lunchbox, plus a samurai-style sword and a dagger, in Crimo’s bedroom closet. Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2022 Hank, of course, will ultimately win over the feline residents of Kakamucho (in addition to learning to wield a samurai sword with slashing finesse). Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 July 2022 Manfredonia allegedly attacked DeMers and another 80-year-old man on Mirtl Road with a samurai sword, records show. Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 23 June 2022 But after being captured, Algren falls in love with the samurai lifestyle and tradition, and begins to believe in the noble warriors’ ways of life. cleveland, 11 June 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Japanese
First Known Use
1727, in the meaning defined at sense 1