Noun
retinue (plural retinues)
- A group of attendants or servants, especially of someone considered important.
- Synonyms: entourage, (obsolete, rare) retain
the queen’s retinues
1915 April, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], “Spring in Town”, in Fifty-one Tales, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, →OCLC: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.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- 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.
- A group of warriors or nobles accompanying a king or other leader; comitatus.
- 1992, J. A. V. Haney and Eric Dahl, “On Igor’s Campaign” (translation of Слово о плъку Игоревѣ):
- 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.”
- (obsolete) A service relationship.
Translations
group of servants
- Armenian: շքախումբ (hy) (škʻaxumb)
- Bulgarian: свита (bg) f (svita)
- Catalan: seguici (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 随从 (zh),随员 (zh) (suíyuán)
- Dutch: gevolg (nl) n, hofhouding (nl) f, hofstoet (nl) m
- Esperanto: akompanantaro
- Finnish: seurue (fi)
- French: suite (fr) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: παραδρομή f (paradromḗ)
- Irish: cóisir f
- Italian: seguito (it) m
- Latin: comitātus m
- Maori: apataki, hikuroa, hikuhiku
- Marathi: लवाजमा (lavājmā)
- Middle English: retenue, hird, meyne
- Polish: świta (pl) f, asysta (pl) f, asystencja f (archaic)
- Portuguese: séquito (pt) m
- Russian: сви́та (ru) f (svíta)
- Sanskrit: पटल (sa) n (paṭala)
- Serbo-Croatian: svita (sh)
- Spanish: servidumbre (es) f
- Swedish: följe (sv) n, uppvaktning (sv) c
- Telugu: పరివారము (te) (parivāramu)
- Ukrainian: по́чет (uk) m (póčet), сви́та f (svýta) (rare)
- Welsh: nifer (cy) m
- Middle Welsh: niuer m, yniuer m
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