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Definition: Entourage |
EntourageNoun1. The group following and attending to some important person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "entourage" was first used: 1832. (references) |
Synonyms: EntourageSynonyms: cortege (n), retinue (n), suite (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Circumjacence | Outpost; border; (edge); girdle; (circumference); outskirts, boulebards, suburbs, purlieus, precincts, faubourgs, environs, entourage, banlieue; neighborhood, vicinage, vicinity. |
Situation | In such and such surroundings, in such and such environs, in such and such entourage, amidst such and such surroundings, amidst such and such environs, amidst such and such entourage. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Entourage |
| Specialty definitions using "entourage": bath set. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Entourage" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (circle, entourage, lappet), Italian (entourage). |
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Screenplays | A Hungarian woman in Hitler's entourage looked at the sky and then turned to speak to her Fuhrer. (The Nazis: A Warning From History; writing credit: Laurence Rees) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Entourage (2000) | |
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 | Professor Thoulet explaining sounding operations to a lady of the entourage of King Alphonse XIII of Spain. Plate VI, print 2. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Shepherd in field with sheep, during visit of Hermann Göring and entourage to Greece.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Human Rights | Bangladesh | Members of Hossain's entourage then shot at point-blank range one of the men, BNP activist Sajal Chowdhury, who subsequently died; the other person was beaten. (references) |
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Priscilla Presley | That was a way of life. I didn't know anything from then on after that. I didn't look at it that way. That was how he, you know, he got around and he had his entourage. It was just his way of life. I had to accept that. I certainly couldn't change it. |
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| "Entourage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Entourage" is used about 198 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) | 100% | 198 | 21,729 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "entourage": amidst such and such entourage ♦ in such and such entourage ♦ press entourage. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "entourage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shoqëri (association, companionship, company, comradeship, consortium, crowd, fellowship, gang, guild, life, society, tendance, world), rrethim (embrace, encirclement, enclosure, hoarding, inclosure, investment, leaguer, siege). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | محيط (ambience, circumference, circumscription, environment, medium, milieu, ocean, perimeter, setting, surroundings), حاشية (annotation, attendance, bodyguard, border, cortege, edge, edging, footnote, margin, note, postscript, rim, selvage, suite, surround), بطانة (bodyguard, liner, suite, train, underlay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | среда (ambience, background, circle, core, mean, medium, middle, setting, sphere, surroundings), свита (equipage, escort, following, people, retinue, suite, tail, tendance, train), обстоятелства (circs, circumstances, conditions, constellation), обкръжение (encirclement, sphere, surroundings), антураж, придружаващи лица. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | okolí (environs, neighborhood, neighbourhood, outskirts, precincts, surroundings, Vicinage, vicinity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | محیط (Circumference, Comprehensive, Environment, Girth, Lap, Milieu, Outside, Perimeter, Periphery, Sphere), همراهان (Attendance, Retinue, Suite), دوستان , دوروبراطرافیان . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | seurue (company, party, suite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | entourage (environment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | geleit (accompaniment, convoy, cortege, escort, retinue), gefolgschaft (allegiance, fealty, following, loyalty, retinue), gefolge (adherents, cortege, disciples, followers, following, party, retinue, suite, train, wake), begleitung (accompaniment, attendance, backing, chaperonage, companion, company, escort, retinue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συνοδεία (accompaniment, convoy, cortege, escort, procession, safe conduct), ακολουθία (attendance, collating sequence, escort, following, order, retinue, sequence, sequencing, subsequence, subsequency, suit, suite, train). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פמלי" (household, retinue, suite, train), ב י לוי" (attendants, suite), סביב" (company, environment, locality, midst, milieu, neighbourhood, setting, situation, surrounding, vicinity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kíséret (accompaniment, attendance, escort, following, retinue, screen, suite, train). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | entourage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 随伴者 (attendant, member of an entourage or retinue or party), 随" (attendant, member of an entourage or retinue or party). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ずいい" (attendant, member of an entourage or retinue or party), ずいは"しゃ (attendant, member of an entourage or retinue or party). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mooinjer (family, farmhand, folk, inhabitants, kin, people, relations, servants, tribe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | entourageay entomologia (insect powder), pequeno destacamento (party), partido político (party, political process), partido (broken, colors, colours, match, part, party, side), partidarismo (partiality, partisanship, party), facção (band, faction, gang, part, party, sect, side), comitiva (company, cortege, following, retinue, suite, train), ambiente (ambience, ambient, atmosphere, climate, environment, environs, medium, R&DT, surrounding, surroundings). (various references) anturaj (company, environment). (various references) окружение (ambience, ambit, encirclement, environment, milieu, round up, setting, surroundings). (various references) pratnja (accompaniment, escort, follow up, following, retinue, tendance, train), okolina (ambience, environment, environs). (various references) séquito (cortege, retinue, suite, train). (various references) uppvaktning (attendance, attendants, attentions, complimentary call, courting, courtship, gentlemen-in-waiting, ladies-in-waiting, love making, waiting upon), omgivning (belting, context, environment, setting, surroundings), följe (company, crew, escort, retinue, suite, tail, train). (various references) muhit (ambit, circle, domain, milieu, neighborhood, neighbourhood, surroundings), arkadaş çevresi (circle of friends), çevre (adjacencies, ambiance, ambience, ambient, ambit, atmosphere, circle, circumference, climate, compass, contour, domain, ecological, environment, environmental, girth, milieu, neighborhood, neighbourhood, perimeter, periphery, precinct, precincts, premises, purlieus, radius, region, society, sphere, surroundings, vicinity). (various references) оточення (ambience, ambit, circumscription, encirclement, environs, milieu, setting, surround), антураж. (various references) vùng xung quanh những người tuỳ tùng, vùng lân cận. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | entour. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "entourage": entourages. (additional references) | |
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"Entourage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enourage, enterage, enturage, etourage. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "entourage" (pronounced Ä'ntuhrÄ"zh or Ä'nterÄ"zh) |
| 3 | -r Ä" zh | Raj. |
| 3 | -er Ä" zh | barrage, garage, mirage. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-n-o-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: outrange. | |
-2 letters: gaunter, grantee, greaten, negater, negator, outearn, outrage, outrang, reagent, uneager. | |
-3 letters: aerugo, argent, atoner, enrage, entera, ergate, garnet, garote, genera, gerent, goatee, gurnet, nature, neater, negate, neuter, nougat, onager, orange, orgeat, ornate, ourang, outage, outran, ragout, regent, retune, rugate, tenour, tenure, tonger, tongue, tureen, urgent. | |
-4 letters: agene, agent, agone, agree, anger, antre. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-n-o-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: entourages, outgeneral. | |
+2 letters: beardtongue, outgenerals. | |
+3 letters: beardtongues, counteragent, counterargue, counterimage, deregulation, nonregulated, outgeneraled, reregulation. | |
+4 letters: argentiferous, counteragents, counterargued, counterargues, counterchange, countercharge, counterimages, deregulations, deuteragonist, encouragement, garnetiferous, outgeneraling, overeducating, reregulations, subgeneration, unforgettable. | |
+5 letters: conglomerateur, counterchanged, counterchanges, countercharged, countercharges, deuteragonists, discouragement, encouragements, mountaineering, outmaneuvering, outrageousness, overregulating, overregulation, pseudopregnant, subgenerations, supererogation, turbogenerator. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E 74 6F 75 72 61 67 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. - --- ..- .-. .- --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01110100 01101111 01110101 01110010 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n t o u r a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0074 006F 0075 0072 0061 0067 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)398086818784677371 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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