(n.) One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court.
(n.) One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the bad memories - the bloody purges, the violent anarchy of the Cultural Revolution - are officially classified as "mistakes", committed when Mao was old and no longer in control of his evil courtiers.
(2) Maybe Geithner, the veteran courtier, never made an effort to get to know the public.
(3) Among the most senior honours, the dominance of Sir Humphreys and courtiers is striking.
(4) In the published extracts she depicts Buckingham Palace and Clarence House as being at war, with feuding courtiers, dejected aides and dark constitutional menace should Charles III ascend the throne.
(5) The pits are filled with figurines of courtiers and animals, and you can see the fossilised remains of wooden chariots.
(6) Given the guile of those courtiers, that's quite a task: he'll need all the support he can get.
(7) Donald Trump's courtiers bring chaotic and capricious style to White House Read more Patrick Leahy, ranking Democrat on the Senate judiciary committee, said Trump “seems intent on precipitating a constitutional crisis”.
(8) Washington power-brokers and their media courtiers do not discuss him, and he does not make frequent (or any) appearances on US cable news outlets, but outside of those narrow and insular corridors - meaning around the world - few if any political thinkers are as well-known, influential or admired (to its credit, the Guardian, like some US liberal outlets , does periodically publish Chomsky's essays ).
(9) That has left the 33-year-old at the mercy of a range of courtiers.
(10) But more likely, the Times has needed encouragement to get to this precipice – Wendi or her courtiers (shades of Princess Diana) are fanning the flames.
(11) His curriculum vitae is depressingly like that of most Westminster courtiers - some dabbling in research, a bit of media PR, and time as a Whitehall aide de camp.
(12) The duke only resumed public engagements at the World Economic Forum in Davos in late January where he was pursued by reporters and used a short speech “to reiterate and to reaffirm” the existing emphatic Buckingham Palace denials of what courtiers described as “lurid and deeply personal” claims.
(13) Francis suggested that some members of the Vatican's large bureaucracy, which was last year plunged into crisis during the "Vatileaks" scandal, were indeed courtiers; but the main problem with the curia was its self-interested nature.
(14) "He is not just some leader with lots of money to throw at a football club," a senior courtier said.
(15) Like Blatter, Platini is surrounded by courtiers who tell him what he wants to hear.
(16) But like his fellow courtiers, Cohen takes his cues from the throne.
(17) Speaking of the council of cardinals, the advisory panel that met this Tuesday for the first time in what has been likened to a papal G8, he said: "[They are] not courtiers but wise people who share my feelings.
(18) Henry VIII's desperation for a male heir, meanwhile, turned Anne Boleyn's bedroom into a 16th-century Lindo Wing, with every contraction monitored by flocks of ambitious courtiers and the eventual emergence of the conspicuously non-male infant greeted with the sort of reception usually reserved for bears and third-degree cheese burns.
(19) Some courtiers – and the sovereign herself – fear that neither the crown nor its subjects will tolerate the shock of the new,” the book states.
(20) Still, they meant the Queen's partner had an affinity with her subjects that the ducal stuffed-shirt favoured by her courtiers might not have enjoyed.
Royal
Definition:
(a.) Kingly; pertaining to the crown or the sovereign; suitable for a king or queen; regal; as, royal power or prerogative; royal domains; the royal family; royal state.
(a.) Noble; generous; magnificent; princely.
(a.) Under the patronage of royality; holding a charter granted by the sovereign; as, the Royal Academy of Arts; the Royal Society.
(n.) Printing and writing papers of particular sizes. See under paper, n.
(n.) A small sail immediately above the topgallant sail.
(n.) One of the upper or distal branches of an antler, as the third and fourth tynes of the antlers of a stag.
(n.) A small mortar.
(n.) One of the soldiers of the first regiment of foot of the British army, formerly called the Royals, and supposed to be the oldest regular corps in Europe; -- now called the Royal Scots.
(n.) An old English coin. See Rial.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
(2) The records of 148 geriatric patients discharged from the Royal Ottawa Hospital over an 18-month period were studied.
(3) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
(4) All patients with puerperal psychosis admitted to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital within 90 days of childbirth during the periods 1880-90 and 1971-80 were compared.
(5) The Future Forum is a group of 57 health sector specialists chaired by the Professor Steve Field, the former chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
(6) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
(7) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(8) Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, Army Reserve.
(9) He also challenged Lord Mandelson's claim this morning that a controversial vote on Royal Mail would have to be postponed due to lack of parliamentary time.
(10) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
(11) The pupils at the Royal Blind School, Edinburgh, were surveyed and it was found that 40% of the 100 pupils had definitely inherited severe eye disease.
(12) The Press Association tots up a total of £26bn in asset sales last year – including the state’s Eurostar stake, 30% of the Royal Mail and a slice of Lloyds.
(13) Turner was at a meeting last month where the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, clinched an agreement with the five biggest UK banks – Barclays, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and Standard Chartered – to accept the G20 principles.
(14) Buckingham Palace was drawn into the dispute when it was revealed that Pownall had sought advice from the Lord Chamberlain, a key officer in the royal household, on the potential misuse of the portcullis emblem due to it being the property of the Queen.
(15) The aim of this study was to determine the attitudes of participating GPs to the shared obstetric care programme at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne.
(16) Cable says that institutional investors would have been inspecting Royal Mail for some time, adding that it's a standard length document for an IPO of this type.
(17) They must be kept secret because publication would destroy the illusion of a royal neutrality no one in power thinks exists any more.
(18) Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband accepted the Tory idea of a royal charter to establish a new press regulatory body but insisted it be underpinned in statute and said there should be guarantees of the body's independence.
(19) Speaking for the first time since the Qatari royal family abandoned his plans to build 552 new homes on the site of Chelsea barracks, Rogers called for a national inquiry into whether the prince has a constitutional right to become involved in matters such as planning applications which have economic, political and social ramifications.
(20) Bill Shorten has told the union royal commission he would “never be a party to issuing bogus invoices” as he rejected assertions that payments from employers to the Australia Workers’ Union created conflicts of interest during wage negotiations.