Retinue

Definition: Retinue

Retinue

Noun

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

Date "retinue" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Etymology: Retinue \Ret"i*nue\, noun. [from Old English expression retinue, Old French retinue, from retenir to retain, engage, hire. See Retain.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Retinue

Synonyms: cortege (n), entourage (n), suite (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Continuity	Procession, column; retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array.
Sequel	Noun: sequel, suffix, successor; tail, queue, train, wake, trail, rear; retinue, suite; appendix, postscript; epilogue; peroration; codicil; continuation, sequela; appendage; tail piece, heelpiece; tag, more last words; colophon.
Servant	Retinue, suite, cortege, staff, court.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Retinue

English words defined with "retinue": court, Curiality ♦ Meiny ♦ royal court ♦ To have at one's retinue. (references)

Specialty definitions using "retinue": Chalks ♦ Goneril ♦ Mahanaim ♦ Norna of the Fitful Head ♦ Ullin. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A French Physician With His Retinue going to Visit His Patients. / Brandoin pinx. Caldwell Sculp.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Title	Author	Quote
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	All my retinue was that poor lad for an interpreter, whom I persuaded into my service, and at my humble request, we had each of us a mule to ride on.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Retinue" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.42% of the time. "Retinue" is used about 173 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.42%	172	23,722
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.58%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	173	N/A

Expression using "retinue": To have at one's retinue. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "retinue": warrior-retinue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "retinue"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shpurë (attendants, escort). (various references)

Arabic		‏حاشية الملك, ‏بطانة الملك (cortege). (various references)

Bulgarian		свита (entourage, equipage, escort, following, people, suite, tail, tendance, train). (various references)

Chinese		扈 . (various references)

Czech		družina (cortege, suite, train). (various references)

Dutch		gevolg (adherents, consequence, consistency, disciples, followers, following, party, result, suite, supporters, train), aanhang (adherents, disciples, followers, following, party, party members, supporters). (various references)

Farsi		ملتزمین (Attendance, Cortege, Escort, Suit, Suite), همراهان (Attendance, Entourage, Suite), نگهداری 1 (Conservation, Maintenance, Preservation, Restraint, Retention, Sustenance, Upkeep), حفظ (Preservation), خدم وحشم . (various references)

French		suite (result), escorte, cortège. (various references)

Frisian		oanhing (adherents, disciples, followers, following, party, party members). (various references)

German		Gefolge (adherents, cortege, disciples, entourage, followers, following, party, suite, train, wake). (various references)

Greek		ακολουθία (attendance, entourage, escort, following, sequence, subsequence, subsequency, suit, suite, train). (various references)

Hebrew		פמליה (entourage, household, suite, train). (various references)

Hungarian		kíséret (accompaniment, attendance, entourage, escort, following, screen, suite, train). (various references)

Italian		seguito (adherents, continuation, cortege, disciples, escort, followers, following, party, sequel, succession, suite, supporters, train). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		供 (accompanying, attendant, companion, offer, present, serve, submit, supply). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		つきそい (attendance on, attendant, chaperon, escort), けらい (retainer, servant), ともぞろい (attendants), ともぜい (attendants), ともまわり (suite), とも (accompanying, all, and, as well as, attendant, both, companion, follower, friend, including, neither, pal, plural ending, stern, together with, with). (various references)

Manx		lught mooinjer. (various references)

Pig Latin		etinueray

Portuguese		séquito (accommodation, accompaniment, cortege, escort, following, suite, train, turn out), comitiva (company, cortege, entourage, following, suite, train), acompanhamento (accompaniment, attendance, concomitant, escort, procession, side dish). (various references)

Romanian		suitã (concatenation, retainers, series, succession, suite, tail, train), escortã (convoy, escort, screen, tail, train), cortegiu (concomitants, cortege, suite, train), alai (attendance, attendants, concatenation, consequences, cortege, display, escort, followers, fuss, hubbub, show, showiness, suite, train). (various references)

Russian		свита (equipage, tendance). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pratnja (accompaniment, entourage, escort, follow up, following, tendance, train). (various references)

Spanish		séquito (cortege, entourage, suite, train). (various references)

Swedish		följe (company, crew, entourage, escort, suite, tail, train). (various references)

Turkish		maiyet (attendants, servitor, suite, train), eşlik edenler, beraberindekiler. (various references)

Ukranian		кортеж (cortege), почет (attendance, attendant, following, suite). (various references)

Vietnamese		đoàn tuỳ tùng. (various references)

Welsh		gosgordd (escort, train). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	comitatu, comitatus, obsequi, obsequiis, obsequio, obsequium, pompae, pompasque, satellites, stipatores. (various references)
Italian	900-Modern	corteggio. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	retenue. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "retinue": retinued, retinues. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Retinue" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aretine, Aretinus, erotique, getihu, Lentinue, Ratingen, Reinke, reinue, restance, retense, retentum, retenue, retinaed, retine, retinex, retinne, retinu, retinuye, retique, Retonio, rettinue, Rheticus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "retinue" (pronounced re"tunuw')
3	-u n uw'	Avenue, ingenue, revenue.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: reunite, uterine.
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: entire, neuter, retine, retune, tenure, triene, triune, tureen, uniter.
	-2 letters: enter, enure, inert, inter, inure, niter, nitre, rente, retie, rutin, terne, treen, trine, tuner, unite, untie, urine, uteri.
	-3 letters: erne, etui, nite, rein, rent, rete, rite, ruin, rune, runt, teen, tern, tier, tine, tire, tree, true, tune, turn, unit.
	-4 letters: ere, ern, ire, nee.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: ceinture, enuretic, esurient, geniture, mutineer, preunite, retinued, retinues, reunited, reuniter, reunites.
	+2 letters: ceintures, centuries, enuretics, estuarine, eutherian, genitures, indenture, interfuse, interlude, inurement, mutineers, negritude, neutering, preunited, preunites, quercetin, retinulae, reuniters, turneries, unfertile, unmerited, unmitered, unquieter, unsterile.
	+3 letters: adulterine, auctioneer, aventurine, centauries, centrifuge, equestrian, esuriently, eutherians, exurbanite, frumenties, furmenties, immurement, indentured, indentures, infrequent, innumerate, interfluve, interfused, interfuses, interludes, inurements, meitnerium, mutineered, negritudes, neuritides, neuritises, neutralise, neutralize, peritoneum, putrescine, quercetins, questioner, reinducted, renunciate, requesting, resupinate, reuttering, scrutineer, subentries, tenebrious, terminuses, trusteeing, turgencies, turnverein, turpentine, uncreative, uncredited, underwrite, undirected, unfiltered, uninterest, unreadiest, unrequited, unsteadier, untimelier, urinometer.
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