Retinue

WOTD - 27 October 2007    

English

Noun

Retinue (plural Retinues)

1. A group of servants or attendants, especially of someone considered important.

   the queen’s retinues

2. (obsolete) A service relationship.

Adjectives for Retinue

glittering; brilliant; imperial; numerous(pi) ; copious; radiant; perilous.

Thesaurus

attendance, attendant, attendants, body of retainers, cohort, company, convoy, cortege, court, crew, employees, entourage, escort, follower, followers, following, force, gang, groupies, help, hired help, men, parasite, personnel, rout, satellite, servantry, staff, suite, the help, train

Etymology

From Middle English retenue, from Old French retenue, past participle of retenir (“retain”)

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈrɛt.ɪ.njuː/, SAMPA: /"rEt.I.nju:/
• (US) IPA: /ˈrɛtɪnuː/, /ˈrɛtɪnjuː/

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Translations

group of servants

Armenian: շքախումբ (hy) (šk’axumb) Dutch: gevolg (nl) n., hofhouding (nl) f., hofstoet (nl) m. Finnish: seurue (fi) Polish: świta (pl) f.

Portuguese: séquito (pt) m. Russian: свита (ru) (svíta) f. Serbo-Croatian: svita (sh) Swedish: följe

service relationship

Anagrams

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