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 the hiragana spelling of the above term.)