retinues
Meaning of retinues
plural noun
- 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.
- Languages in which retinues is used:
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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:
Meaning a person, vehicle, or group accompanying another for protection or as a mark of rank:
Meaning a commercial business:
Meaning the courtiers, retinue, and household of a sovereign:
Meaning all the people employed by a particular organization:
Meaning people employed in an organization or engaged in an organized undertaking such as military service:
Meaning a house and its occupants regarded as a unit:
Meaning a retinue of attendants accompanying an important person:
Meaning a group of people in attendance on a monarch or other person of high rank:
Meaning a body of supporters or admirers:
Meaning a person or group of people employed to escort and protect an important or famous person:
Meaning an assistant to an important person, especially a political leader:
Meaning a partner or companion in business or at work:
Meaning a person or animal with whom one spends a lot of time or with whom one travels:
Meaning a person employed to provide a service to the public in a particular place:
Meaning a person who performs duties for others, especially a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant:
Meaning a thing that holds something in place:
Meaning a person who supports and admires a particular person or set of ideas:
Meaning a young woman who regularly follows a pop group or other celebrity, especially in the hope of having a sexual relationship with them:
Meaning a disorderly retreat of defeated troops:
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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