retinue

retinue

englanti
  1. seurue, saattue (arvohenkilön)

Esimerkkejä:

The planet Jupiter has 67 confirmed moons. This gives it the largest 'retinue' of moons.

Synonyymisanakirja

retinue

kokoontuminen, joukko, ryhmä, hovikunta, kuninkaallinen hovikunta, seurue.

Rimmaavat sanat

retinue rimmaa näiden kanssa:

sanue, pahnue...

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Englannin sanakirja

retinue (englanti > suomi)

  1. seurue

retinue englanniksi

  1. A group of servants or attendants, especially of someone considered important.

  2. the queen’s retinues

  3. 1915, w:Lord Dunsany|Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, w:Fifty-One Tales|Fifty-One Tales:

  4. And not any longer as a king did Winter appear in those streets, as when the city was decked with gleaming white to greet him as a conqueror and he rode in with his glittering icicles and haughty retinue of prancing winds, but he sat there with a little wind at the corner of the street like some old blind beggar with his hungry dog.
  5. 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

  6. 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.
  7. A group of warriors or nobles accompanying a king or other leader; comitatus.

  8. 1992, J. A. V. Haney and Eric Dahl, “On Igor’s Campaign” (translation of w:The Tale of Igors Campaign|Слово о плъку Игоревѣ''):

  9. Then Igor looked up at the bright sun and saw all his warriors
    darkened from it by a shadow.
    And Igor said to his retinue:
    “Brothers and companions! It is better to be slain than taken captive.
    Mount, brothers, your swift horses that we may glimpse the Blue Don.”
  10. puhekieltä A service relationship.

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