Courtier

Word COURTIER
Character 8
Hyphenation court ier
Pronunciations /ˈkɔːtɪə/

Definitions and meanings of "Courtier"

What do we mean by courtier?

An attendant at a sovereign's court. noun

One who seeks favor, especially by insincere flattery or obsequious behavior. noun

One who attends or frequents the court of a sovereign or other high dignitary. noun

One who courts or solicits the favor of another; one who possesses the art of gaining favor by address and complaisance. noun

One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court. noun

One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters. noun

A person in attendance at a royal court. noun

A person who flatters in order to seek favour. noun

An attendant at the court of a sovereign noun

A person in attendance at a royal court.

A person who flatters in order to seek favour.

Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Sephisa.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Courtier

The word "courtier" in example sentences

All my training and thoughts were centred here, not as what one calls a courtier at all, but as one of the household who feared the king and queen no more than ❋ Unknown (1884)

The Persian courtier is constantly on horseback, hunting with his sovereign in weather of all kinds, or accompanying him in journeys from one end of Persia to the other. ❋ Unknown (1856)

Now, the old woman sat no more at the door with her distaff -- the lank beggar no longer asked charity in courtier-like phrase; nor on holidays did the peasantry thread with slow grace the mazes of the dance. ❋ Unknown (1826)

But the disposition of a courtier is tame and submissive; and Capito seldom presumed to deviate from the sentiments, or at least from the words, of his predecessors; while the bold republican pursued his independent ideas without fear of paradox or innovations. ❋ Unknown (1206)

The Republican criminal class of the current generation has not slithered, cheated, bribed and whored its way to power without the active support and contrivance of the establishment media, which Digby has rightly described as a courtier class. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A courtier is an attendant at a royal court or an inveterate flatterer. ❋ PAUL R. MARTIN (2002)

It didn't matter that the courtier was her son; she had no intention of taking the game past the graceful and empty movements of the dance of words and gesture, and he knew it, and she knew he knew it, so everyone was happy. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1990)

He is good metal in the inside, though rough and unscoured without, and therefore hated of the courtier, that is quite contrary. ❋ John Earle (N/A)

B.C. He was a voluptuary, who sang beautifully of love, and wine, and nature, and who has been called the courtier and laureate of tyrants, in whose society, and especially in that of Polyc'rates and Hippar'chus, his days were spent. ❋ Marcius Willson (N/A)

The jocose ruffians here enliven the scene -- one by being cast into a dungeon for asking _Ottocar_ (evidently the Colburn of his day), an exorbitant price for the copyright of a certain manuscript; the other, by calling the courtier a man of genius, and being taken into his service, as no doubt, "first robber." ❋ Various (N/A)

In harmony with the polished, pliant nature of the courtier is his elegant ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The courtier is another character suggested by the technical works, and transformed by the genius of Shūdraka. ❋ Arthur William Ryder (1907)

Therefore, I am called a courtier, even when I am not at court. ❋ Unknown (1880)

'They liked James because he was very cerebral and amusing company as well as being rather good looking,' recalls a courtier from that period. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But I'm excited that this may be the co-option of 'courtier's response' for ID – an anchored web of self-referential nonsense offered as an detailed exposition of design detection. ❋ Unknown (2010)

RTH: But I'm excited that this may be the co-option of 'courtier's response' for ID – an anchored web of self-referential nonsense offered as an detailed exposition of design detection. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The entire DC establishment went stark raving bonkers for eight years, followed by nearly five years of a kind of courtier sycophancy we haven't seen since Louis XVI. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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