Definition of "retinue" in английский

noun

1. A group of attendants or servants, especially of someone considered important.

   • the queen’s retinues
   • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.

2. A group of warriors or nobles accompanying a king or other leader; comitatus.

   • Then Igor looked up at the bright sun and saw all his warriors / darkened from it by a shadow. / And Igor said to his retinue: / “Brothers and companions! It is better to be slain than taken captive. / Mount, brothers, your swift horses that we may glimpse the Blue Don.”

3. (obsolete) A service relationship.