Word Meanings - COURTIER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court. You know I am no courtier, nor versed in state affairs. Bacon. This courtier got a frigate, and that a company. Macualay. 2. One who courts or

Additional info about word: COURTIER

1. One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court. You know I am no courtier, nor versed in state affairs. Bacon. This courtier got a frigate, and that a company. Macualay. 2. One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters. There was not among all our princes a greater courtier of the people than Richard III. Suckling.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COURTIER)

• Parasite
• Sycophant
• flatterer
• toady
• courtier
• toad-eater
• timeserver

Related words: (words related to COURTIER)

• SYCOPHANTIZE
  To play the sycophant.
• TOADYISM
  The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.
• SYCOPHANT
  Gr. sycophante. The reason for the name is not certainly known. See 1. An informer; a talebearer. "Accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature." Sir P. Sidney. 2. A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially,
• TOADY
  1. A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant. Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs. Dickens. 2. A coarse, rustic woman. Sir W. Scott.
• SYCOPHANTISH
  Like a sycophant; obsequiously flattering. -- Syc"o*phant`ish*ly, adv. Sycophantish satirists that forever humor the prevailing folly. De Quincey.
• COURTIER
  1. One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court. You know I am no courtier, nor versed in state affairs. Bacon. This courtier got a frigate, and that a company. Macualay. 2. One who courts or
• SYCOPHANTCY
  Sycophancy.
• SYCOPHANTISM
  Sycophancy.
• COURTIERY
  The manners of a courtier; courtliness. B. Jonson.
• SYCOPHANTRY
  Sycophancy.
• TIMESERVER
  One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense.
• PARASITE
  1. One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant. Thou, with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obey'st. Milton. Parasites were called
• SYCOPHANTIC; SYCOPHANTICAL
  Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic. To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. South. Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain.
• FLATTERER
  One who flatters. The most abject flaterers degenerate into the greatest tyrants. Addison.
• MICROPARASITE
  A parasitic microörganism. -- Mi`cro*par`a*sit"ic , a.
• SUPPARASITE
  To flatter; to cajole; to act the parasite. Dr. R. Clerke.
• MALARIA PARASITE
  Any of several minute protozoans of the genus Plasmodium (syn. Hæmatozoön) which in their adult condition live in the tissues of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles and when transferred to the blood of man, by the bite of the mosquito, produce
• ENDOPARASITE
  Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozoön. -- En`do*par`a*sit"ic, a.
• ECTOPARASITE
  Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite. -- Ec`to*par`a*sit"ic, a.