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sensei

[ sen-sey ]

noun

  1. a karate or judo instructor.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sensei1

< Japanese: teacher, master, doctor < Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese xiānsheng ( xiān ahead + shēng born)
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Example Sentences

This article was revised to reflect that the next Sensei experiment will take place underground in Canada, not California as originally stated.

While his farm is one of Ellison’s rare competitors, he appreciates that Sensei is providing employment outside of the tourism industry.

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The dishes were picked and prepared, the wines selected, and we congregated before our wine sensei.

They are rewarded in part, no doubt, by the respect which pupils and the general public give to the sensei (teacher).

Sensei, we saluted politely, why didnt he return the salute?

Heaven knows the "Skipping Sensei" needs all the prayers of the congregation!

And, indeed, upon the score of faithfulnessin its legal senseI entertained no doubts.

The years had passed, yet the rustic had no difficulty in recognizing in the Sensei the one time Jinnosuké.

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