different between entourage vs companions

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French entourage, from entourer (“to surround”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n.t?.????/, /????.t?.????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n.t?.???/

Noun

entourage (plural entourages)

1. A retinue of attendants, associates or followers.
2. (topology) A binary relation in a uniform space which generalises the notion of two points being no farther apart than a given fixed distance; a uniform neighbourhood.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French entourage, from entourer (“to surround”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.tu?ra?.??/
• Hyphenation: en?tou?ra?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

entourage f (plural entourages)

1. entourage (retinue of associates or attendants)
2. decoration surrounding something

French

Etymology

From entourer +? -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.tu.?a?/

Noun

entourage m (plural entourages)

1. ornament, decoration surrounding something

   Entourage de fleurs, de perles.

2. group of acquaintances

   Cet homme a un mauvais entourage.

Descendants

• ? Dutch: entourage
• ? English: entourage
• ? Italian: entourage
• ? Portuguese: entourage

References

“entourage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From French entourage.

Noun

entourage m (invariable)

1. entourage, retinue

Further reading

• entourage in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

From French entourage.

Noun

entourage m (plural entourages)

1. entourage (retinue of attendants, associates or followers)
2. clique (one’s social group of friends)

Further reading

• “entourage” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?pænj?nz/
• Hyphenation: com?pan?ions

Noun

companions

1. plural of companion

Anagrams

• compansion