D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

ronin

/(rō"nĭn)/ · ro·nin · IPA /rˈoʊnɪn/
01 n. In Japan, under the feudal system, a samurai who had renounced his clan or who had been discharged or ostracized and had become a wanderer …
  1. 1.
    In Japan, under the feudal system, a samurai who had renounced his clan or who had been discharged or ostracized and had become a wanderer without a lord; an outcast; an outlaw.