ろうにん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ろうにん – see the following entry.

【浪人】

[noun] a masterless samurai

[noun] a vagrant, a vagabond, a wanderer

[noun] someone in exile

[noun] a prisoner

[noun] someone who has been laid off or fired, an unemployed person

[noun] a student who failed the annual university entrance exams and is waiting to take them again: 浪人生 (rōninsei)

[verb] to become unemployed, to lose one's job

[verb] (archaic) to lose one's master

[verb] to study for the following year's annual university entrance exams after failing

(This term, ろうにん, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)