(n.) A man of elevated rank or station; a nobleman. In Spain, a nobleman of the first rank, who may be covered in the king's presence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her behaviour with her European counterparts mirrored her treatment of the Tory grandees.
(2) Miklos Haraszti, whom I encountered in Budapest, had the looks of a small Spanish grandee in some Velázquez painting; dark, unnervingly handsome, serene.
(3) Anyone who stands in his way, from the prime minister to the Labour leader Ed Miliband and grandees in his own party such as the former leader Lord Steel of Aikwood, can expect a withering rebuke from Clegg.
(4) You’re not the first person to be let down by Boris Johnson,” a Tory grandee once dryly remarked when I had to stand in for BoJo at some obscure seminar.
(5) I share with Jeremy the wish to see a world which is free of nuclear weapons, but I don’t believe for one second that if Britain were to give up its deterrent any other of the nuclear states would give theirs up,” he said “The truth is that we live in a differently dangerous world now and we need a continuous at-sea-deterrent, and we need to do it in the most cost effective way – that is the view the Labour party conference has taken for many years now.” Labour party grandees also made interventions on Sunday that could undermine Corbyn.
(6) Public criticism of Ed Miliband's leadership by senior Labour figures is creating an impression of "toxic disunity" and risks handing the next election to the Tories, according to party grandee Dame Tessa Jowell .
(7) Tory grandees visibly winced on television as the scale of the defeat sank in - and Basildon, symbol of their salvation among Essex voters in 1992, went Labour on a 15 per cent swing.
(8) If this is so, the lineup of grandees he manages to assemble to speak for his character is all the more impressive.
(9) Yet the upper classes are Tory grandees; never little Englanders.
(10) Ignatieff, who was cast by some party grandees as the great hope for an ailing party in search of a charismatic leader, became leader in 2009.
(11) As a final attempt to reconcile the rival camps, party grandee Alain Juppé was brought in to mediate.
(12) Shadow cabinet members are under pressure from Labour grandees to start spelling out their policies more clearly.
(13) As well as his immense experience in the political nuances of the Lords, Strathclyde was seen as an important link to the more traditional wing of the Tory party and its grandees.
(14) A plan to transform the organisation, produced by City grandee Lord Myners, echoed Sutherland's call to "modernise or die" and recommended a shakeup of the Co-op's structure.
(15) Lord Hurd , 70, the Tory party grandee and a second member of the honours committee, has declined to give evidence to the current hearings in line with Conservative party members who are boycotting the proceedings.
(16) Back at the bar of the Imperial hotel, he made himself busy introducing Tory's trousers to various Conservative party grandees, insisting they shake a proffered leg by way of greeting.
(17) John Hall Bristol It is hardly surprising that people such as Chris Patten have turned into apologists for the EU when they were shunted off to the Brussels gravy train - yet they still seem to think we want to hear their views (Grandees turn on Cameron over plans for EU, 30 May).
(18) The Conservative grandees were backed up by a retinue of more-or-less loyal historians.
(19) Brown wined and dined with Charles Kennedy and other party grandees, and used his private jet to fly Kennedy across the country during the election campaign.
(20) George W Bush spun a tale depicting himself as an average boy who grew up in an average family, when, as we know, he had all the privileges available to a son whose father was a Republican grandee and would-be president.
Nobleman
Definition:
(n.) One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.
Example Sentences:
(1) This finished with a concert performance of the finale from Fidelio, Beethoven's only opera, which tells the story of a nobleman, Florestan, who is rescued from prison by his wife dressed as a prison guard, Fidelio.
(2) A new allele (C3*F0.35) was detected in a Chinese individual and in a nobleman from Bali.
(3) "I can't separate the business from the personal," he grumps over a shot of an oil painting depicting him as a jubilant 18th-century nobleman surrounded by his children's whooping disembodied heads.
(4) This paper presents and explains an early clinical discussion of the case of a young nobleman who had developed a severe speech impediment associated with anxiety.
(5) This note concerns the analysis of a work written in the early years of the century by a discredited Polish nobleman.
(6) There is the terrible gaffe he makes which sets the whole terrible train of events in motion (it's a small train, admittedly, but big enough to cause havoc); there is his initial impression that Kekesfalva is a genuine venerable Hungarian nobleman, that Condor is a bumpkin and a fool; and, in one splendidly subtle piece of writing, in which an interior state of mind is beautifully translated into memorable yet familiar imagery, he imagines himself to be better put together than Condor, when they walk out in bright moonlight on the night of their first meeting: And as we walked down the apparently snow-covered gravel drive, suddenly we were not two but four, for our shadows went ahead of us, clear-cut in the bright moonlight.
(7) "They seek the secret of the Grail," gasps carbuncular nobleman Bertrand, as swarms of rhubarbing crusaders prepare to storm his ramparts.
(8) The head of a once noble house, which he inherited from a great nobleman.
(9) The pool is spring-fed and there’s lots of local mystery surrounding it.” A woodcutter’s daughter, for example, is said to have met a tragic fate after being so scared by a nobleman on a horse that she swam into deeper water and drowned.
(10) Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor will play the sorcerous nobleman Baron Mordo opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Marvel Studios’ forthcoming superhero epic Doctor Strange, reports Deadline .
(11) This was more like a scene in a Shakespeare play where a nobleman switches places with his servant.
(12) Ultimately, she ditches Severin for a hot-headed Greek nobleman.
(13) Olof af Acrel, the father of Swedish Surgery, operated in 1768 upon a young nobleman who had experienced an increasing swelling on the skull, due to a tumour which also turned out to be growing deep into the brain parenchyma.
(14) A married woman with a 12-year-old son is bored of her life and succumbs to a fling with a predatory nobleman; another woman is terrorised into blackmail by someone she assumes is the other "kept woman" of her lover; a doctor asks for sexual favours from the woman who has come to him for a secret abortion.
(15) In the second book of the Essais towards the end of the twelfth chapter Montaigne mentions a nobleman who does not take note of his blindness.
(16) So Mason could be lord and nobleman, a very upper-class fellow - he did that from his Flaubert in the silly MGM production of Madame Bovary to Brutus in the same studio's Julius Caesar, from Mr Jordan in Heaven Can Wait to the "prince of darkness" lawyer, Ed Concannon, in The Verdict.
(17) Goodwin Wharton (1653-1704) was a nobleman's son and a Whig MP who played no small part in English public life.
(18) Born in 1745 in the town of Como in what is now northern Italy, Volta was the son of a nobleman.