What does the word Samurai mean?
Papajoe gave you the correct answer, although it was seemingly necessary to have to look it up on Wikipedia. You should have thought of looking there yourself. Too lazy? This IMPORTANT part was missed, however — Samurai warriors described themselves as followers of “The Way of the Warrior” or Bushidō. Bushidō is defined by the Japanese dictionary Shogakukan Kokugo Daijiten as “a unique philosophy (ronri) that spread through the warrior class from the Muromachi (chusei) period. From the earliest times, the Samurai felt that the path of the warrior was one of honor, emphasizing duty to one’s master, and loyalty unto death. [3] It was this Bushidō Code of “loyalty unto death” that made the Japanese soldiers of WW2 so fierce and suicidal, and consequently very difficult to defeat. Death was better than surrender.
