Definition of Shogi

1. Noun. A form of chess played on a board of 81 squares; each player has 20 pieces.

Generic synonyms: Chess, Chess Game
Geographical relationships: Japan, Nihon, Nippon

Definition of Shogi

1. Noun. Japanese chess; a chess variant created and mainly played in Japan. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shogi

1. a Japanese game like chess [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shogi

shoewear
shofar
shofars
shofroth
shog
shogged
shogging
shoggle
shoggled
shoggles
shogglier
shoggling
shoggly
shoggoth
shoggoths
shogi (current term)
shogis
shogs
shogun
shogunal
shogunate
shogunates
shoguns
shoji
shojis
shojo
shojos
shokkiri
shola
sholas

Literary usage of Shogi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Working Women of Japan by Sidney Lewis Gulick (1915)
"CHAPTER XI shogi (LICENSED PROSTITUTES) IT may seem strange to class prostitutes among working women, but the facts ..."

2. Grammar and Vocabulary of Waziri Pashto by John Gordon Lorimer (1902)
"He is said to have been decoyed by Guli, shogi, to his house and there treacherously shot with a pistol. This murder was in retaliation for the recent death ..."

3. Mysterious Japan by Julian Street (1921)
"This is done by segregating the women called shogi in certain specified districts, and keeping them off the city streets. Whatever may be urged for or ..."

4. The Real Japan: Studies of Contemporary Japanese Manners, Morals by Henry Norman (1892)
"The keeper was a sharp-looking woman of fifty, who had 45 shogi in her house, which she had just built at a cost of 45000 dollars. ..."

5. The Real Japan: Studies of Contemporary Japanese Manners, Morals by Henry Norman (1893)
"The keeper was a sharp-looking woman of fifty, who had 45 shogi in her house, which she had just built at a cost of 45000 dollars. ..."

6. The Real Japan: Studies of Contemporary Japanese Manners, Morals by Henry Norman (1909)
"The keeper was a sharp-looking woman of fifty, who had 45 shogi in her house, which she had just built at a cost of 45000 dollars. ..."

7. The Yankees of the East: Sketches of Modern Japan by William Eleroy Curtis (1896)
"Having obtained her license, the shogi makes a contract with the keeper of a ... On the other hand, the shogi agrees to obey all the rules and regulations, ..."

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