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retinue
English
Etymology
From Middle English retenue, from Old French retenue, past participle of retenir (“retain”). Doublet of ritenuto.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???t.?.nju?/
- (US) IPA(key): /???t?n(j)u?/
- ,
Noun
retinue (plural retinues)
- A group of servants or attendants, especially of someone considered important.
- the queen’s retinues
- 1915, Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, Fifty-One Tales:
- And not any longer as a king did Winter appear in those streets, as when the city was decked with gleaming white to greet him as a conqueror and he rode in with his glittering icicles and haughty retinue of prancing winds, but he sat there with a little wind at the corner of the street like some old blind beggar with his hungry dog.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.
- A group of warriors or nobles accompanying a king or other leader; comitatus.
- 1992, J. A. V. Haney and Eric Dahl, “On Igor’s Campaign” (translation of ????? ? ????? ???????):
- Then Igor looked up at the bright sun and saw all his warriors
darkened from it by a shadow.
And Igor said to his retinue:
“Brothers and companions! It is better to be slain than taken captive.
Mount, brothers, your swift horses that we may glimpse the Blue Don.”
- Then Igor looked up at the bright sun and saw all his warriors
- 1992, J. A. V. Haney and Eric Dahl, “On Igor’s Campaign” (translation of ????? ? ????? ???????):
- (obsolete) A service relationship.
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- neurite, reunite, unitree, uterine
Middle English
Noun
retinue
- Alternative form of retenue
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associates
English
Pronunciation
- Noun form:
- (General American) IPA(key): /??so??i.?ts/, /??so?si.?ts/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??s???i.?ts/, /??s??si.?ts/
- Verb form:
- (General American) IPA(key): /??so??ie?ts/, /??so?sie?ts/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??s???ie?ts/, /??s??sie?ts/
- Hyphenation: as?so?ci?ates
Noun
associates
- plural of associate
Verb
associates
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of associate
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