Definition of "daimio" []

• A feudal lord of Japan who was a large landowner. (noun)

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• "The game takes place in Medieval Japan, where warlords, known as daimio, are battling for control."
• "This is also spelled "daimio" without diaeresis above the "i" elsewhere in the text."
• ""It will be suggest to me, because I am of daimio blood" -- Tamada drew himself up slightly as he claimed his nobility -- "that I make hari-kari.""