Dignitary Synonyms

dĭgnĭ-tĕrē

Words Related to Dignitary

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. important
  2. dignitories
  3. dignitaries

Dignitary Sentence Examples

  • The highest county dignitary is the lord-lieutenant, the office dating from 1782.

  • The lord chief justice is, next to the lord chancellor, the highest judicial dignitary in the kingdom.

  • The master of the horse is the third dignitary of the court, and is always a member of the ministry (before 1782 the office was of cabinet rank), a peer and a privy councillor.

  • On returning from Tilsit to Paris he relieved Talleyrand of the ministry of foreign affairs, softening the fall by creating him a grand dignitary of the empire.

  • Any estate with a revenue exceeding 100,000 aspres was a khas, and was conferred on a prince or on a high dignitary as long as he held his post; for each 5000 aspres of revenue one armed warrior had to be furnished in war.

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