Courtier synonyms

kôr'tē-ər, -tyər

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beau
A male given name used since mid-twentieth century.
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servant (related)
One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
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attendant
One who attends or waits on another.
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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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Find another word for courtier. In this page you can discover 23 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for courtier, like: beau, servant, attendant, flatterer, wooer, adulator, sycophant, toady, apple-polisher, over and praise.
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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."

  • The ascription to Sir Francis of Arcana Aulica: or Walsingham's Manual of Prudential Maxims for the Statesman and the Courtier is erroneous; the book is really the translation of a French treatise by one Edward Walsingham who flourished c. 1643-1659.

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

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

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

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