retinue

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noun

Plural noun:

retinues

1.
A group of attendants or servants, especially of someone considered important.
the queen’s retinues
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.
Đồng nghĩa: entourage, retain, cortege
2.
A group of warriors or nobles accompanying a king or other leader; comitatus.
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.”
3.
(obsolete)A service relationship.

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Đồng nghĩa

entourage retain cortege

Cùng gốc / liên quan

retinuedqueen retinue pheromone

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English retenue, from Old French retenue, past participle of retenir (retain). ritenuto.