Search Terms: *衆
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noun
1.
great numbers (of people), numerical superiority, masses
noun, noun (suffix)
2.
people, folk, clique, bunch(honorific language, familiar language)
Other readings:
衆【しゅ】
noun
•
group (of people), crowd, horde, throng, mob, multitude
See also:群集
Other readings:
群衆【ぐんしゅ】
、群衆【ぐんじゅ】
noun
1.
women
See also:男衆 (おとこしゅう)
2.
maidservant
See also:男衆 (おとこしゅう)
Other readings:
女衆【おんなしゅ】
、女衆【おんなし】
noun
1.
humble samurai who served as a body guard on foot
See also:徒侍
2.
bodyguards in service of the shogun who would walk ahead of him on an outing (Edo period)
See also:徒士組 (かちぐみ)
na-adjective, no-adjective, noun
1.
low-life, sleazebag, boor
na-adjective, noun, no-adjective
2.
person of humble rank, humble person, peasant, menial, churl, petty official
Other readings:
下衆【げす】
、下司【げす】
noun
1.
children(archaism)
2.
child(archaism, honorific language)
3.
young male prostitute(archaism)
4.
prostitute(archaism, Kantou-ben (dialect))
noun
•
feudal lord who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)
noun
1.
four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)
2.
four monastic communities (ordained monks, ordained nuns, male novices and female novices)
3.
the four assemblies(in Tendai)
Other readings:
四衆【ししゅう】
noun
1.
assembly of monks and laity (at a rite, sermon, etc.)(Buddhist term)
2.
Other readings:
時衆【じしゅう】
noun
•
seven orders of Buddhist disciples (monks, nuns, probationary nuns, male novices, female novices, male lay devotees, female lay devotees)
noun
•
four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)(obscure)
See also:四衆