courtier

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
courtier
    n 1: an attendant at the court of a sovereign
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Courtier \Court"ier\ (k[=o]rt"y[~e]r), n. [From {Court}.]
   1. One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who
      has an appointment at court.
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            You know I am no courtier, nor versed in state
            affairs.                              --Bacon.
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            This courtier got a frigate, and that a company.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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   2. One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters.
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            There was not among all our princes a greater
            courtier of the people than Richard III. --Suckling.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "courtier":
      adherent, adulator, appendage, apple-polisher, ass-licker,
      attendant, backscratcher, backslapper, blarneyer, bootlick,
      bootlicker, brown-nose, brownie, buff, cajoler, cavaliere servente,
      clawback, creature, cringer, dangler, dependent, disciple, dupe,
      fan, fawner, flatterer, flunky, follower, following, footlicker,
      groveler, handshaker, hanger-on, helot, henchman, homme de cour,
      instrument, jackal, kowtower, lackey, led captain, lickspit,
      lickspittle, mealymouth, minion, parasite, partisan, peon, public,
      puppet, pursuer, pursuivant, satellite, sectary, serf, shadow,
      slave, spaniel, stooge, successor, suck, supporter, sycophant,
      tagtail, tail, timeserver, toad, toady, tool, trainbearer,
      truckler, tufthunter, votary, ward heeler, wheedler, yes-man
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