Definition of bushido in English:
bushido
noun ˈbuːʃɪdəʊbʊˈʃiːdəʊˈbo͞oSHēˌdō
mass nounThe code of honour and morals developed by the Japanese samurai.
Example sentencesExamples
- As well as fighting, he immersed himself in the samurai's code of bushido, also known as the way of the warrior.
- Hara kiri developed as an integral part of the code of bushido and the discipline of the samurai warrior class.
- It's set in 1865, the year regarded as the last hurrah for bushido, the samurai code (Japan was on the verge of leaving its self-imposed isolation).
- The notion that the samurai's bushido represents a moral or social principle to live by is more than dubious.
- The military version of bushido was seen as a distortion of samurai ethics by some of the upper class who resented the commoner military.
Origin
Japanese, from bushi 'samurai' + dō 'way'.
Rhymes
aikido, credo, Guido, Ido, libido, lido, speedo, teredo, torpedo, tuxedo