retinue
Accompanying advisory group
A retinue is the group of attendants, servants, or supporters accompanying an important person.
Kings traveled with retinues of advisors and guards; celebrities arrive with retinues of assistants and bodyguards.
The word suggests both status and dependence—the important figure needs the entourage, and the entourage needs the patron: The ambassador arrived with her full retinue.
Armed group pursuing fugitives
- squadSmall working group
- crewWorking team aboard
- coterieExclusive social circle
- escortOne who accompanies another
convoy · delegation · company · band · party · companions · cohorts · assembly
Loyal supporters of something
- acolytesDevoted followers or assistants
- disciplesDevoted followers of teachings
- devoteesPassionate adherents
- supportersPeople who back something
partisans · votaries · groupies · entourage · hangers-on · sycophants · flatterers · lackeys
Personal servant or parker
- butlerChief domestic servant
- footmanUniformed domestic male attendant
- lady-in-waitingFemale royal court attendant
- stewardManager for another
attendant · maid · page · chamberlain · equerry · cupbearer · herald · squire
Royal household attendant
- nobilityTitled ruling class
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
- pageantryElaborate ceremonial display
- protocolPrescribed conduct rules
etiquette · decorum · chivalry · gallantry · monarchal · ducal · viscount · marquis
Loyalty owed to authority
- fealtyPledged devotion to authority
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- fidelityLoyalty or exactness
- faithfulnessDevoted loyalty maintained
service · obedience · vassalage · steadfastness · dedication · commitment · duty · bond
posse
Armed group pursuing fugitives
escort · convoy · delegation · company · band · party · companions · cohorts · assembly · troop
adherents
Loyal supporters of something
- acolytesDevoted followers or assistants
- disciplesDevoted followers of teachings
- devoteesPassionate adherents
supporters · partisans · votaries · groupies · entourage · hangers-on · sycophants · flatterers · lackeys · minions
valet
Personal servant or parker
- butlerChief domestic servant
- footmanUniformed domestic male attendant
- lady-in-waitingFemale royal court attendant
steward · attendant · maid · page · chamberlain · equerry · cupbearer · herald · squire · groom
courtier
Royal household attendant
- nobilityTitled ruling class
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
- pageantryElaborate ceremonial display
protocol · etiquette · decorum · chivalry · gallantry · monarchal · ducal · viscount · marquis · royal household
allegiance
Loyalty owed to authority
faithfulness · service · obedience · vassalage · steadfastness · dedication · commitment · duty · bond · constancy
- groupsteam, teams, group, club, clubs
- processionsparade, procession, march, funeral procession, military parade
- royalty'scrown jewels, scepter, throne, realm, kingdom
- beekeepingbeekeeping, apiculture, beehive, hive, apiary
- Viking WorldNorway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland
- escortsescort, bodyguard, chaperon, chaperone, guard
- retinal scanEye-based biometric verification
- retinal scannerEye-based identity verifier
- retinal detachmentPhotoreceptor layer separates from eye