noun
Meaning 1
A person in attendance at a royal court.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
courtier
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈkɔɹtiɚ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːtɪə/
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/ˈko(ː)ɹtiɚ/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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/ˈkoətɪə/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)tiə(ɹ)
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noun
Meaning 2
A person who flatters in order to seek favour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Sephisa.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 4
an attendant at the court of a sovereign
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: attendant, attender, tender
Narrower terms: Damocles, Du Barry, Comtesse Du Barry, Marie Jeanne Becu, Raleigh, Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Raleigh, Ralegh, Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh, Suckling, Sir John Suckling
History
Etymology
From Middle English courteour, from Anglo-Norman corteour, Old French cortoiier, from cort (“court”). By surface analysis, court + -ier.
Across languages
Translations
61 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: прыдво́рны (prydvórny) — attendant at a royal court
- Belarusian: прыдво́рная (prydvórnaja) — attendant at a royal court
- Bulgarian: придво́рен (pridvóren) — attendant at a royal court
- Bulgarian: придво́рна (pridvórna) — attendant at a royal court
- Catalan: cortesà — attendant at a royal court
- Chinese Mandarin: 廷臣 (tíngchén) — attendant at a royal court
- Chinese Mandarin: 朝臣 (cháochén) — attendant at a royal court
- Czech: dvořan — attendant at a royal court
- Czech: dvořanka — attendant at a royal court
- Old Czech: dvořěnín — attendant at a royal court
- Danish: hofmand — attendant at a royal court
- Dutch: hoveling — attendant at a royal court
- Esperanto: kortegano — attendant at a royal court
- Finnish: hoviherra — attendant at a royal court
- Finnish: hovimies — attendant at a royal court
- French: courtisan — attendant at a royal court
- German: Höfling — attendant at a royal court
- Greek: αυλικός (avlikós) — attendant at a royal court
- Ancient Greek: αὐλικός (aulikós) — attendant at a royal court
- Hungarian: udvaronc — attendant at a royal court
- Irish: cúirteoir — attendant at a royal court
- Italian: cortigiano — attendant at a royal court
- Japanese: 廷臣 (teishin) — attendant at a royal court
- Korean: 정신 (jeongsin) — attendant at a royal court
- Latin: aulicus — attendant at a royal court
- Latin: cūriālis — attendant at a royal court
- Macedonian: дворјанин (dvorjanin) — attendant at a royal court
- Macedonian: дворјанка (dvorjanka) — attendant at a royal court
- Middle English: courteour — attendant at a royal court
- Norwegian Bokmål: hoffmann — attendant at a royal court
- Occitan: cortesan — attendant at a royal court
- Polish: dworzanin — attendant at a royal court
- Polish: dworka — attendant at a royal court
- Polish: dwórka — attendant at a royal court
- Portuguese: cortesão — attendant at a royal court
- Romanian: curtean — attendant at a royal court
- Russian: придво́рный (pridvórnyj) — attendant at a royal court
- Russian: придво́рная (pridvórnaja) — attendant at a royal court
- Russian: царедво́рец (caredvórec) — attendant at a royal court
- Serbo-Croatian: дво̀ранин — attendant at a royal court
- Serbo-Croatian: дворанка — attendant at a royal court
- Serbo-Croatian: dvòranin — attendant at a royal court
- Serbo-Croatian: dvoranka — attendant at a royal court
- Slovak: dvoran — attendant at a royal court
- Slovak: dvoranka — attendant at a royal court
- Slovene: dvorjan — attendant at a royal court
- Slovene: dvorjanka — attendant at a royal court
- Spanish: cortesano — attendant at a royal court
- Swedish: hovman — attendant at a royal court
- Ukrainian: придво́рний (prydvórnyj) — attendant at a royal court
- Ukrainian: придво́рна (prydvórna) — attendant at a royal court
- Vietnamese: triều thần — attendant at a royal court
- Vietnamese: cận thần — attendant at a royal court
- German: Schmeichler — a person who flatters in order to seek favour
- Greek: κόλακας (kólakas) — a person who flatters in order to seek favour
- Polish: pochlebca — a person who flatters in order to seek favour
- Polish: przydupas — a person who flatters in order to seek favour
- Romanian: curtezan — a person who flatters in order to seek favour
- Russian: подхали́м (podxalím) — a person who flatters in order to seek favour
- Russian: льстец (lʹstec) — a person who flatters in order to seek favour
- Vietnamese: nịnh thần — a person who flatters in order to seek favour
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