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courtier

  (kôr'tē-ər, -tyər, kōr'-) pronunciation
n.
  1. An attendant at a sovereign's court.
  2. One who seeks favor, especially by insincere flattery or obsequious behavior.

[Middle English courteour, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French cortoier, to be at a royal court, from cort, court. See court.]


 
 
Thesaurus: courtier

noun

    One who flatters another excessively: adulator, flatterer, sycophant, toady. Informal apple-polisher. See over/under, praise/blame.

 

[koor-TYAY] In the wine world, this French term means "wine broker." Such a person is the middleman between a small producer and a négociant, who bottles and ships the wines. The courtier helps establish the price that a small producer will get from the negociant for the wine.

 
Wikipedia: courtier

A courtier is a person who attends upon, and thus receives a privileged position from a powerful person, usually a head of state. In the United States, the term has taken on negative connotations as a synonym for favorite or hanger-on.

It is usually also used in a historical context, especially to describe the attendants of a luxurious autocrat such as Louis XIV of France. This context is used by many to make the word quaintly old-fashioned and irrelevant in contemporary circumstances, although "placemen" and rewarded campaign-donors in the American political system are contemporary examples of de facto courtiers.

Examples of famous courtiers

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Translations: Translations for: Courtier

Dansk (Danish)
n. - hofmand, hofdame

Nederlands (Dutch)
hoveling

Français (French)
n. - courtisan, dame de la cour

Deutsch (German)
n. - Höfling

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αυλικός

Italiano (Italian)
cortigiano

Português (Portuguese)
n. - bajulador (m)

Русский (Russian)
придворный

Español (Spanish)
n. - cortesano

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - hovman

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
朝臣, 奉承者

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 朝臣, 奉承者

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 궁정의 신하, 구애자

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 宮廷に仕える人, 廷臣, ご機嫌取りをする人

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) أحد حاشيه الملك‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮איש חצר, חצרן‬


 
 

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