entourage

See also: Entourage

English

WOTD – 18 October 2009

Etymology

Borrowed from French entourage, from entourer (“to surround”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒn.tʊ.ɹɑːʒ/, /ˈɑ̃ː.tʊ.ɹɑːʒ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɑn.tə.ɹɑʒ/

• Audio (AU):

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Noun

entourage (plural entourages)

1. A retinue of attendants, associates or followers.
2. (topology) A binary relation in a uniform space which generalises the notion of two points being no farther apart than a given fixed distance; a uniform neighbourhood.

Translations

retinue of attendants, associates or followers

• Armenian: շքախումբ (hy) (škʻaxumb)
• Catalan: seguici (ca) m
• Danish: fælge n, ledsagere c pl
• Dutch: gevolg (nl) n
• Esperanto: akompanantaro
• Finnish: seurue (fi)
• French: entourage (fr) m
• German: Gefolge (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: παραδρομή f (paradromḗ)

• Hungarian: kíséret (hu)
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• Irish: comhluadar m, cuideachta (ga) f, lucht coimhdeachta m, timpeallacht f
• Maori: apataki, hikuroa, hikuhiku
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: følge (no) n

• Portuguese: entourage (pt)
• Russian: сви́та (ru) f (svíta) (suite), окруже́ние (ru) n (okružénije), антура́ж (ru) m (anturáž)
• Spanish: séquito (es)
• Swedish: följe (sv)
• Turkish: yalaklar (tr), yalakalar

topology: binary relation

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French entourage, from entourer (“to surround”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

entourage f (plural entourages)

1. entourage

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French

Etymology

From entourer +‎ -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tu.ʁaʒ/

• Audio:

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Noun

entourage m (plural entourages)

1. ornament, decoration surrounding something

   Entourage de fleurs, de perles.

2. group of acquaintances

   Cet homme a un mauvais entourage.

References

“entourage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French

Noun

entourage m (uncountable)

1. entourage, retinue

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Portuguese

Noun

entourage m (plural entourages)

1. entourage (retinue of attendants, associates or followers)
2. clique (one’s social group of friends)

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Spanish

Noun

entourage m (plural entourages)

1. entourage