retinue

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɹɛ.tɪ.njuː/    美 /ˈɹɛ.tɪ.n(j)uː/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A group of attendants or servants, especially of someone considered important.
    — the queen’s retinues
  2. A group of warriors or nobles accompanying a king or other leader; comitatus.
    — 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.”
  3. A service relationship. obsolete

词形变化

retinues plural

词汇关系

衍生词
queen retinue pheromone retinued
相关词
hangers-on

词源

From Middle English retenue, from Old French retenue, past participle of retenir (“retain”). Doublet of ritenuto.
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