Definitions for courtier

courtier cour·ti·er

Spelling: [kawr-tee-er, kohr-]
IPA: /ˈkɔr ti ər, ˈkoʊr-/

Courtier is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 218 anagrams from letters in courtier (ceiorrtu).

Definitions for courtier

noun

  1. a person who is often in attendance at the court of a king or other royal personage.
  2. a person who seeks favor by flattery, charm, etc.

Origin of courtier

1250-1300; Middle English courteour Anglo-French courte(i)our, equivalent to Old French cortoy(er) to attend at court (derivative of court court) + Anglo-French -our

Examples for courtier

The quick step of Fonseca interrupted the courtier's reverie.

And her tone told the courtier that his words had been lost upon the morning air.

But of that absence the courtier's enemies well availed themselves.

There was more stirring in his mind than the mere desire to play the courtier now.

His son had been playing with a courtier and the latter had heedlessly wounded him.

But no use moralizing—he was always too much of a courtier for me.

"You were intended for a courtier, Doctor," said Sir Horace, smiling.

But the essence of Disraeli's genius as a courtier was his ability to make it all about her.

There is many a courtier will swear to King Henry to bring him in dead or alive.

Why that man has conversation for the prince and the peasant—the courtier and the anchorite.

Word Value for courtier
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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