ENTOURAGE: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | `ântû'râzh
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| | Definition: | | [n] the group following and attending to some important person |
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| | Synonyms: | | cortege, retinue, suite |
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| | See Also: | | assemblage, bodyguard, court, gathering, guard, royal court | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \En`tou`rage"\ ([aum]N`t[=oo]`r[.a]zh"), n. [F.]
Surroundings; specif., collectively, one's attendants or
associates.
The entourage and mode of life of the mikados were not
such as to make of them able rulers. --B. H.
Chamberlain.
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| | Related Terms: | | alentours, ambience, ambit, associates, attendance, attendant, attendants, body of retainers, borderlands, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, cohort, compass, context, cortege, court, courtiers, environing circumstances, environment, environs, follower, followers, following, gestalt, habitat, milieu, neighborhood, outposts, outskirts, parasite, perimeter, periphery, precincts, purlieus, retainers, retinue, rout, satellite, situation, suburbs, suite, surroundings, total environment, train, vicinage, vicinity |
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