ENTOURAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entourage mean? 

• ENTOURAGE (noun)
  The noun ENTOURAGE has 1 sense:

1. the group following and attending to some important person

  Familiarity information: ENTOURAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTOURAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The group following and attending to some important person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

cortege; entourage; retinue; suite

Hypernyms ("entourage" is a kind of...):

assemblage; gathering (a group of persons together in one place)

Meronyms (parts of "entourage"):

bodyguard (a group of men who escort and protect some important person)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "entourage"):

court; royal court (the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince)

 Context examples 

Small galaxies do not normally have globular clusters of their own, so the Sausage galaxy was big enough to host its own entourage of clusters.

(The Gaia Sausage: the major collision that changed the Milky Way, University of Cambridge)

In the entourage will be Jupiter (good fortune), Pluto (financial gain), and Saturn (stability).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This eclipse will be greeted by Saturn and Pluto, already settled in your second house, and that adds up to quite a powerful entourage.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)