dignitary

dig·ni·tar·y

(dĭg′nĭ-tĕr′ē)

n. pl. dig·ni·tar·ies

A person of high rank or position.

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dignitary

(ˈdɪɡnɪtərɪ; -trɪ)

n, pl -taries

a person of high official position or rank, esp in government or the church

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dig•ni•tar•y

(ˈdɪg nɪˌtɛr i)

n., pl. -tar•ies.

a person who holds a high rank or office, as in a government or church.

[1665–75; dignit (y) + -ary]

dig`ni•tar′i•al (-ˈtɛər i əl) adj.

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Noun

dignitary - an important or influential (and often overbearing) person

high muckamuck, high-up, panjandrum, very important person, VIP

important person, influential person, personage - a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events

dignitary

noun public figure, worthy, notable, high-up (informal), bigwig (informal), celeb (informal), personage, pillar of society, pillar of the church, notability, pillar of the state, V.I.P. He was a visiting dignitary of great importance.

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dignitary

noun

An important, influential person:

character, eminence, leader, lion, nabob, notability, notable, personage.

Informal: big-timer, heavyweight, somebody, someone, VIP.

Slang: big shot, big wheel, bigwig, muckamuck.

Translations

وَجيه، صاحِب رُتْبَه أو مَقام

hodnostář

dignitarfornem person

Würdenträger

dignatario

dignitaire personnage

maîur í virîingarstöîu

dignitario

aukštas pareigūnas

augsta amatpersona

person av høy rang

hodnostár

önde gelen kişiyüksek mevkili kimse

职位高的人高官显贵

dignitary

[ˈdɪgnɪtərɪ] N → dignatario/a m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

dignitary

[ˈdɪgnɪtəri] n → dignitaire m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

dignitary

n → Würdenträger(in) m(f); the local dignitaries → die Honoratioren am Ort

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

dignitary

[ˈdɪgnɪt/ərɪ] n → dignitario

dignitary

(ˈdignitəri) – plural ˈdignitaries – noun

a person who has a high rank or office.

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Besides Princess Bielokonski, only one other lady was expected, the wife of a high dignitary. Evgenie Pavlovitch, who was to escort the princess, was the only young man.

He saw, for instance, that one important dignitary, old enough to be his grandfather, broke off his own conversation in order to listen to HIM--a young and inexperienced man; and not only listened, but seemed to attach value to his opinion, and was kind and amiable, and yet they were strangers and had never seen each other before.

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There were also present a very distinguished dignitary and a Swiss who had formerly been tutor at the Kuragins'.

The Grand Master proposed that the last duty should be performed, and the distinguished dignitary who bore the title of "Collector of Alms" went round to all the brothers.

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Came then, from the back of the room a procession headed by the high dignitary whose office it was to make these two man and wife, and directly behind him a richly-clad youth bearing a silken pillow on which lay the golden handcuffs connected by a short length of chain-of-gold with which the ceremony would be concluded when the dignitary clasped a handcuff about the wrist of each symbolizing their indissoluble union in the holy bonds of wedlock.

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Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him.

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I said that if that potentate must go over in our ship, why, I supposed he must --but that to my thinking, when the United States considered it necessary to send a dignitary of that tonnage across the ocean, it would be in better taste, and safer, to take him apart and cart him over in sections in several ships.

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The practice of forming a line and shaking the President's hand had no other origin, and when that great dignitary bestows his healing salutation on

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In defiance of conventual rules, and the edicts of popes and councils, the sleeves of this dignitary were lined and turned up with rich furs, his mantle secured at the throat with a golden clasp, and the whole dress proper to his order as much refined upon and ornamented, as that of a quaker beauty of the present day, who, while she retains the garb and costume of her sect continues to give to its simplicity, by the choice of materials and the mode of disposing them, a certain air of coquettish attraction, savouring but too much of the vanities of the world.

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Now and then a camel or an elephant would pass bearing some officer or dignitary to safety.

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This dignitary, conferring in secrecy with John Rokesmith on the subject of punch and wines, bent his head as though stooping to the Papistical practice of receiving auricular confession.

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There were many uncomplimentary references, on the walls, to a certain unpopular dignitary. One sufferer had got three days for not saluting him.