Courtier synonyms

kôr'tē-ər, -tyər

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beau
A male given name used since mid-twentieth century.
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attendant
One who attends or waits on another.
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servant (related)
One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
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flatterer
One who flatters.
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wooer
Someone who woos or courts
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adulator
One who lavishes excessive praises or flattery, one who adulates.
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sycophant
One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
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toady
A person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant.
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apple-polisher
(Informal) A person who seeks to curry favor with a superior through gifts, flattery, etc.
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over (related)
Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc.
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praise (related)
(Archaic) A reason or basis for praise
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retainer
A person serving another, esp. someone of rank; servant, attendant, adherent, etc.
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subject
A citizen in a monarchy.
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squire
1598, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, V, 2, 474.
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courtesan (related)
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nobleman (related)
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aristocrat (related)
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patrician (related)
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nobility (related)
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retinue (related)
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prelate (related)
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personage (related)
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usurper (related)
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Courtier Sentence Examples

  • Hooper speaks of himself at this period as being "a courtier and living too much of a court life in the palace of our king."

  • At the inquiry he bought his acquittal from a courtier and his accusers were executed.

  • But he was more useful to the courtier in his legal capacity, and Rochester dissuaded him from the ministry.

  • The type is set before us by Castiglione in that book upon the courtier which went the round of Europe in the 16th century.

  • He would make that foxy old courtier feel that the responsibility for all the calamities that would follow the abandonment of the city and the ruin of Russia (as Rostopchin regarded it) would fall upon his doting old head.

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