ろうにん

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Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ろうにん – see the following entry.
浪人
a masterless samurai
a vagrant, a vagabond, a wanderer
someone in exile
a prisoner
someone who has been laid off or fired, an unemployed person
a student who failed the annual university entrance exams and is waiting to take them again: 浪人生 (​rōninsei)
to become unemployed, to lose one's job
(archaic) to lose one's master
to study for the following year's annual university entrance exams after failing
(This term, ろうにん (rōnin), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)