"oiran" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From Japanese 花魁, literally ‘flower-leader’.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "oiran",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oirans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "oiran",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "oiran (plural oiran or oirans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Turkish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Donald Richie, The Inland Sea, Stone Bridge Press, page 192",
          "text": "The oiran of Mitarai was not like the geisha. Like the great eighteenth-century courtesans of Europe, she knew who and what she was and turned wanton provocation into an art.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A high-status courtesan in Japan."
      ],
      "id": "en-oiran-en-noun-EAmgQMEL",
      "links": [
        [
          "courtesan",
          "courtesan"
        ],
        [
          "Japan",
          "Japan"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "oiran",
          "word": "oiran"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "oiran"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɔɪɹən/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "oiran"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From Japanese 花魁, literally ‘flower-leader’.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "oiran",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oirans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "oiran",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "oiran (plural oiran or oirans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English indeclinable nouns",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Donald Richie, The Inland Sea, Stone Bridge Press, page 192",
          "text": "The oiran of Mitarai was not like the geisha. Like the great eighteenth-century courtesans of Europe, she knew who and what she was and turned wanton provocation into an art.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A high-status courtesan in Japan."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "courtesan",
          "courtesan"
        ],
        [
          "Japan",
          "Japan"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "oiran"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɔɪɹən/"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "oiran",
      "word": "oiran"
    }
  ],
  "word": "oiran"
}