Meaning of COURTIER
| Pronunciation: | | 'kowrteeur
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| | Definition: | | [n] an attendant at the court of a sovereign |
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| | See Also: | | attendant, attender, Comtesse Du Barry, Damocles, Du Barry, Marie Jeanne Becu, Ralegh, Raleigh, Sir John Suckling, Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Raleigh, Suckling, tender, Walter Ralegh, Walter Raleigh | |
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| | Definition: | | \Court"ier\ (k?rt"y?r), n. [From {Court}.]
1. One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who
has an appointment at court.
You know I am no courtier, nor versed in state
affairs. --Bacon.
This courtier got a frigate, and that a company.
--Macaulay.
2. One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters.
There was not among all our princes a greater
courtier of the people than Richard III. --Suckling.
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| | Related Terms: | | adherent, adulator, appendage, apple-polisher, ass-licker, attendant, backscratcher, backslapper, blarneyer, bootlick, bootlicker, brownie, brown-nose, buff, cajoler, cavaliere servente, clawback, creature, cringer, dangler, dependent, disciple, dupe, fan, fawner, flatterer, flunky, follower, following, footlicker, groveler, handshaker, hanger-on, helot, henchman, homme de cour, instrument, jackal, kowtower, lackey, led captain, lickspit, lickspittle, mealymouth, minion, parasite, partisan, peon, public, puppet, pursuer, pursuivant, satellite, sectary, serf, shadow, slave, spaniel, stooge, successor, suck, supporter, sycophant, tagtail, tail, timeserver, toad, toady, tool, trainbearer, truckler, tufthunter, votary, ward heeler, wheedler, yes-man |
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