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Ranking member of a group
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doyen
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A commander in charge of ten men. 2 The senior, or eldest male member of a group. 3 (context colloquial English) A leading light, or exemplar of a particular practice or movement.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a man who is the senior member of a group; "he is the dean of foreign correspondents" [syn: dean ]
Usage examples of doyen.
Prince or Sorcerer, Armiger or Tragamor, Demon or Doyen, which of the endless list you are.
And it was among these notable and austere personagesshort of their customary total by one, for the doyen Chelp had died a few days earlierthat the inventor Yockerbow was summoned to stand today, beneath the interlaced branches of the Doqal Hall, with water plashing underpad.
He consulted often with the doyens who commanded their companies and with merchants whose judgment he respected.
He listened attentively, first calling around him the doyens as well as Lucca and Johannes.
Flandrin, one of the doyens, had been injured, and we had scarcely room to carry them in the carts.
The lure of hazard had drawn all but one other of the club’s doyens from the room, and that one, Lord Petersham, was lost in one of his fits of deep abstraction.
Edward Freeman in 1869, the doyen of comparatively modern writers on the conquest, misread the Carmen, apparently on purpose, to try to conceal that William took any part in the barbarous deed.