retinues

Meaning of retinues

plural noun
  1. a group of advisers, assistants, or others accompanying an important person.
    the rock star's retinue of security guards and personal cooks

late Middle English: from Old French retenue, feminine past participle (used as a noun) of retenir ‘keep back, retain’.

Information about retinues

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of retinues is: retinue.
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Hyphenation of retinues

ret-inues

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • retinues is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

retinues synonyms

Meaning a group of people attending or surrounding an important person:

entourage

Meaning a person, vehicle, or group accompanying another for protection or as a mark of rank:

escort

Meaning a commercial business:

company

Meaning the courtiers, retinue, and household of a sovereign:

court

Meaning all the people employed by a particular organization:

staff

Meaning people employed in an organization or engaged in an organized undertaking such as military service:

personnel

Meaning a house and its occupants regarded as a unit:

household

Meaning a retinue of attendants accompanying an important person:

train

Meaning a group of people in attendance on a monarch or other person of high rank:

suite

Meaning a body of supporters or admirers:

following

Meaning a person or group of people employed to escort and protect an important or famous person:

bodyguard

Meaning an assistant to an important person, especially a political leader:

aides

Meaning a partner or companion in business or at work:

associates

Meaning a person or animal with whom one spends a lot of time or with whom one travels:

companions

Meaning a person employed to provide a service to the public in a particular place:

attendants

Meaning a person who performs duties for others, especially a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant:

servants

Meaning a thing that holds something in place:

retainers

Meaning a person who supports and admires a particular person or set of ideas:

followers

Meaning a young woman who regularly follows a pop group or other celebrity, especially in the hope of having a sexual relationship with them:

groupies

Meaning a disorderly retreat of defeated troops:

rout

Anagrams of retinues

esurient, neurites, reunites, Turinese

Words that rhyme with retinues

inganues, avenues, datenues, parvenues, revenues, tenues, venues, continues, detinues, discontinues, recontinues

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