entourage

See also: Entourage

English

WOTD – 18 October 2009

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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


Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

entourage f (plural entourages)

  1. entourage

French

Etymology

From entourer + -age

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑ̃.tu.ʁaʒ/
  • (file)

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 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).


Italian

Etymology

French

Noun

entourage m (invariable)

  1. entourage, retinue

Portuguese

Noun

entourage m (plural entourages)

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

Spanish

Noun

entourage m (plural entourages)

  1. entourage
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