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Entourage vs Retinue - What's the difference?

entourage | retinue |

As nouns the difference between entourage and retinue

is that entourage is a retinue of attendants, associates or followers while retinue is a group of servants or attendants, especially of someone considered important.

entourage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A retinue of attendants, associates or followers.
  • (label) A binary relation in a uniform space which generalises the notion of two points being no farther apart than a given fixed distance; a uniform neighbourhood.

    • retinue

    English

    (wikipedia retinue)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of servants or attendants, especially of someone considered important.
    • the queen’s retinues
  • * 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.
  • (obsolete) A service relationship.

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