Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

ronin

ronin (rō"nin) , noun

[Jap. rō-nin, from Chin. lang profligate, lawless + jên (old sound nīn) man.]

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.