Cortege

Definition: Cortege

Cortege

Noun

1. A funeral procession.

2. The group following and attending to some important person.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cortege" was first used: 1649. (references)

Synonyms: Cortege

Accompaniment

Concomitant, accessory, coefficient; companion, buddy, attendant, fellow, associate, friend, colleague; consort, spouse, mate; partner, co-partner; satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller, shadow; escort, cortege; attribute.

Adjunct

Rider, offshoot, episode, side issue, corollary; piece; flap, lappet, skirt, embroidery, trappings, cortege; tail, suffix; (sequel); wing.

Continuity

Procession, column; retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array.

Journey

Procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column.

Servant

Retinue, suite, cortege, staff, court.

Crosswords: Cortege

Ohio Complete Funeral Cortege at Canton (1901)

D.C. President McKinley's Funeral Cortege at Washington (1901)

The Funeral Cortege Arriving at Trinity Pier (1901)

New York President McKinley's Funeral Cortege at Buffalo (1901)

Arrival of Funeral Cortege at St. George's Chapel (1901)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Cortege (reference)

• Cortege (Study) (reference)

• Cortege D'Impatiences: Poesie Et Prose (Collection Creation No 145) (reference)

• Deux Morceaux Pour Violon Et Piano Nocturne & Cortege (reference)

• Le Bestiaire Ou Cortege D'Orphee (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Every profession has its aspirants who make up the cortege of those who are at the summit.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

pasues (adherent, coming, consequent, disciple, follow up, follower, following, hanger-on, henchman, incoming, next, proximate, puisne, pursuant to, pursuivant, Sequent, subsequent, successive, successor), kortezh (pageant, procession). (various references)

Arabic 

‏موكب جنائزي, ‏موكب (caravan, escort, pageant, parade, procession), ‏حاشية (annotation, attendance, bodyguard, border, edge, edging, entourage, footnote, margin, note, postscript, rim, selvage, suite, surround), ‏بطانة الملك (retinue). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тържествено шествие, кортеж (train). (various references)

Czech

prùvod (parade, procession, suite, train), kondukt, družina (retinue, suite, train). (various references)

Farsi 

ملتزمین (Attendance, Escort, Retinue, Suit, Suite). (various references)

French

cortège. (various references)

German

gefolge (adherents, disciples, entourage, followers, following, party, retinue, suite, train, wake). (various references)

Greek 

συνοδεία (accompaniment, convoy, entourage, escort, procession, safe conduct), πομπή (pageant, pageantry, pomp, procession). (various references)

Hebrew 

ת�"לוכ�" (cavalcade, parade, procession). (various references)

Hungarian

díszkíséret (suite). (various references)

Indonesian

iring-iringan (convoy). (various references)

Italian

corteo (procession, train), seguito (adherents, continuation, disciples, escort, followers, following, party, retinue, sequel, succession, suite, supporters, train). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

儀仗 (guard). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎじょう (agreement, assembly hall, guard, the House). (various references)

Manx

cosheeaght oanluckee. (various references)

Pig Latin

ortegecay

Portuguese

cortejo (courtship, following, procession, suite, train), comitiva (company, entourage, following, retinue, suite, train), séquito (accommodation, accompaniment, escort, following, retinue, suite, train, turn-out), procissão (procession, train), espetáculo público (pageant). (various references)

Romanian

cortegiu (concomitants, retinue, suite, train), alai (attendance, attendants, concatenation, consequences, display, escort, followers, fuss, hubbub, retinue, show, showiness, suite, train). (various references)

Russian 

кортеж (motorcade, tuple). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

procesija (procession), povorka (procession, processional). (various references)

Spanish

cortejo (courtship, procession, train), comitiva (procession, retinue, suite, train), séquito (entourage, retinue, suite, train). (various references)

Swedish

kortege, begravningsfölje. (various references)

Turkish

kortej, kafile (caravan, convoy, group, procession, train), alay (banter, derision, fleet, fun, gag, gibe, irony, jape, jeer, jest, jibe, joke, leg pull, mock, mockery, parade, persiflage, procession, quiz, regiment, regimental, ridicule, rub, scoff, sneer, taunt, teasing, troops in line, wipe). (various references)

Ukrainian

кортеж (retinue). (various references)

corteggio. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cortege": corteges. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cortege" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Botteghe, cartege, Cornejo, cortehe, cortie, Cortzee, cottege. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: egret, erect, ergot, greet, recto, terce.

-3 letters: cere, cero, cete, core, cote, eger, ergo, goer, gore, gree, grot, ogee, ogre, rete, rote, torc, tore, tree.

-4 letters: cee, cog, cor, cot, ego, ere, erg, gee, get, gor, got, orc, ore, ort, rec, ree, reg, ret, roc, roe, rot, tee, teg, toe, tog, tor.

-5 letters: er.

+1 letter: corteges.

+2 letters: courgette, geometric.

+3 letters: categories, categorise, categorize, coerecting, coexerting, congregate, convergent, courgettes, egocentric, electroing, ergometric, erotogenic, estrogenic, geocentric, geometrics, orogenetic.

+4 letters: atherogenic, categorised, categorises, categorized, categorizes, cogenerator, concertgoer, congregated, congregates, egocentrics, egocentrism, eigenvector, electrogram, electrology, geometrical, greenockite, heterogonic, macrogamete, megaproject, microgamete, reobjecting, retroceding, teratogenic.

+5 letters: aeromagnetic, androgenetic, archegoniate, bioenergetic, cogeneration, cogenerators, concentering, concertgoers, conglomerate, copresenting, costermonger, counteragent, counterargue, counterimage, egocentrisms, eigenvectors, electrogenic, electrograms, encountering, ergodicities, geochemistry, geometrician, geostrategic, greenockites, hectographed, macrogametes, megaprojects, meteorologic, microgametes, orthogenetic, overexciting, overreacting, petrogenetic, precognitive, recollecting, reconnecting, reconverting, redecorating, secretagogue, serotonergic.