The queen began to fear that an assassin was among her retinue, leading her to expel them one-by-one until there was nobody left to protect her.
Source: tatoeba (10640392)
Retinue
//ˈɹɛ.tɪ.njuː//
Synonyms for "retinue" (37 found)
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Closest matches (8)
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Related words (18)
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7 entriesTranslations
63 translations across 30 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- παραδρομή noun (group of servants)
Armenian
1 entries- շքախումբ noun (group of servants)
Bulgarian
2 entries- кортеж noun (comitatus)
- свита noun (group of servants)
Catalan
2 entries- seguici noun (group of servants)
- seguici noun (comitatus)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 随从 noun (group of servants)
- 随员 noun (group of servants)
Dutch
3 entries- gevolg noun (group of servants)
- hofhouding noun (group of servants)
- hofstoet noun (group of servants)
Esperanto
1 entries- akompanantaro noun (group of servants)
Finnish
3 entries- palvelussuhde noun (service relationship)
- seurue noun (group of servants)
- seurue noun (comitatus)
French
2 entries- retenue noun (comitatus)
- suite noun (group of servants)
Galician
2 entries- acompañamento noun (comitatus)
- séquito noun (comitatus)
German
1 entries- Gefolge noun (comitatus)
Irish
1 entries- cóisir noun (group of servants)
Italian
1 entries- seguito noun (group of servants)
Latin
3 entries- cohors noun (comitatus)
- comitātus noun (group of servants)
- comitātus noun (comitatus)
Marathi
1 entries- लवाजमा noun (group of servants)
Middle English
4 entries- douthe noun (comitatus)
- hird noun (group of servants)
- hird noun (comitatus)
- meyne noun (group of servants)
Middle Welsh
4 entries- niuer noun (group of servants)
- niuer noun (comitatus)
- yniuer noun (group of servants)
- yniuer noun (comitatus)
Māori
4 entries- apataki noun (group of servants)
- apataki noun (comitatus)
- hikuhiku noun (group of servants)
- hikuhiku noun (comitatus)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- дроужина noun (comitatus)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- дружина noun (comitatus)
Polish
3 entries- asysta noun (group of servants)
- asystencja noun (group of servants)
- świta noun (group of servants)
Portuguese
1 entries- séquito noun (group of servants)
Russian
2 entries- дружи́на noun (comitatus)
- сви́та noun (group of servants)
Sanskrit
1 entries- पटल noun (group of servants)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- svita noun (group of servants)
Spanish
2 entries- mesnada noun (comitatus)
- servidumbre noun (group of servants)
Swedish
2 entries- följe noun (group of servants)
- uppvaktning noun (group of servants)
Telugu
1 entries- పరివారము noun (group of servants)
Ukrainian
3 entries- дружи́на noun (comitatus)
- по́чет noun (group of servants)
- сви́та noun (group of servants)
Welsh
2 entries- nifer noun (group of servants)
- nifer noun (comitatus)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
They're less a political party and more one conman and his retinue of suckers.
Source: tatoeba (10640399)
The 3 corporations have each hired a retinue of lawyers, and seek to enjoin the state from regulating their industry.
Source: tatoeba (10693835)
He grew up in the retinue of the king.
Source: tatoeba (12600798)
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