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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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convoy
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French convoier, another form of conveier, from Medieval Latin convio (“to accompany on the way”), from Latin com- (“together”) + via (“way”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?n.v??/
Noun
convoy (plural convoys)
- (nautical) One or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels.
- A group of vehicles travelling together for safety, especially one with an escort.
- The act of convoying; protection.
Related terms
- convey
Translations
Verb
convoy (third-person singular simple present convoys, present participle convoying, simple past and past participle convoyed)
- (transitive) To escort a group of vehicles, and provide protection.
- A frigate convoys a merchantman.
- I know ye skilful to convoy
The total freight of hope and joy.
- I know ye skilful to convoy
Translations
Further reading
- convoy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- convoy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- convoy at OneLook Dictionary Search
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English convoy, itself from French convoi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?komboi/, [?kõm.boi?]
- Rhymes: -oi
Noun
convoy m (plural convoyes)
- convoy
References
- “convoy” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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