1. groom; footman; stableman; equerry
2. steward; intendant
3. head of an institution, esp. religious; head of one institution serving also as the head of anotherArchaic
4. Bettōis a term which originally indicated the head of an institution serving temporarily as the head of another one, but which came to mean also the full-time head of some institution. The Kamakura period samurai Wada Yoshimori, for example, was the first bettō of the shogunate's Samurai-dokoro.
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