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Webster 1913 Edition
Retinue
Ret′i-nue
,Noun.
The body of retainers who follow a prince or other distinguished person; a train of attendants; a suite.
Others of your insolent
retinue
. Shakespeare
What followers, what
retinue
canst thou gain? Milton.
To have at one’s retinue
, to keep or employ as a retainer; to retain.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Retinue
RET'INUE
,Noun.
The attendants of a prince or distinguished personage, chiefly on a journey or an excursion; a train of persons.
Definition 2024
retinue
retinue
English
Noun
retinue (plural retinues)
- A group of servants or attendants, 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.
- (obsolete) A service relationship.
Translations
group of servants
service relationship