Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Chinese provincial military governor.
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- noun a Chinese
military governor orwarlord
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Mandarin dūjūn, from Middle Chinese təwk kyn : təwk, to supervise, oversee + kyn, army.]
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From Mandarin 督軍 (dūjūn, "military governor; warlord").
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It is a significant fact, symbolically at least, that the most powerful remaining tuchun or military governor in China -- in some respects the only powerful one who has survived the vicissitudes of the last few years -- namely Chang Tso
China, Japan and the U.S.A. Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference John Dewey 1905
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