Henchman - English meaning

noun

A person assisting a priest in a religious service or procession.

Usage examples:

There were scores of acolytes and priests, preparing to begin the ritual.

noun

Anyone who follows or helps another person, or someone who helps a priest in some religious ceremonies

noun

A military officer who acts as an administrative assistant to a senior officer.

Usage examples:

He eventually became adjutant to the commander of the tactical air force

noun

A military officer who does office work and who is responsible for rules and punishment among the lower ranks

noun

An assistant to an important person, especially a political leader.

Usage examples:

A presidential aide

noun

A person whose job is to help someone important, such as a member of a government or a military officer of high rank

Usage examples:

A senior government aide, an aide to the prime minister

noun

A person who ranks below a senior person.

Usage examples:

The managing director and his assistant

noun

Someone who helps someone else to do a job

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An administrative/office assistant, an assistant editor/manager

noun

Someone who works in a shop, selling goods to customers and giving advice about the goods sold in the shop

Usage examples:

A sales/shop assistant

noun

A person or group of people employed to escort and protect an important or famous person.

Usage examples:

Already, she is in need of bodyguards to protect her from the all-too-real threat of stalkers.

noun

A person or group of people whose job is to protect someone from attack

Usage examples:

The prince is always accompanied by his bodyguards.

noun

A close friend or companion.

Usage examples:

He went gambling with his cronies

noun

A close friend or companion, esp. someone who may not be honest

Usage examples:

I’d like to see the president and his cronies booted out of office.

noun

A friend, or a person who works for someone in authority, especially one who is willing to give and receive dishonest help

Usage examples:

The general and his cronies are now awaiting trial for drug smuggling.

noun

A liveried manservant or footman.

Usage examples:

Liveried flunkies rushed forward to open the doors, tv lights flared, cameras flashed and the crowd…

noun

A person who does unimportant work or who has few or no important responsibilities and shows too much respect toward his or her employer

Usage examples:

He could snap his fingers and get his flunky to do it.

noun

The person who does the boring physical work in a company

Usage examples:

Office flunky freddy is considered the office flunkey.

noun

A person who supports and admires a particular person or set of ideas.

Usage examples:

Followers of nietzsche

noun

Someone who obeys or supports another person or that person’s ideas

Usage examples:

The newly elected governor appeared overcome with emotion as he thanked his followers., they are en…

noun

A company or product that only makes new changes, enters a market, etc. after other companies or products have done this first

Usage examples:

Law firms are not leaders in business, they are followers., our analysis supports the view of germa…

pronoun

Used to refer to a man, boy, or male animal previously mentioned or easily identified.

Usage examples:

Everyone liked my father—he was the perfect gentleman

noun

A male; a man.

Usage examples:

Is that a he or a she?

abbreviation

High explosive.

noun

A person who helps someone else.

Usage examples:

There was no shortage of willing helpers

noun

A person who helps with an activity

Usage examples:

The driver or a helper picks up the trash.

noun

Someone who helps another person to do their job

Usage examples:

Classroom/domestic helpers, voluntary/volunteer helpers

noun

A servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant.

Usage examples:

Lackeys were waiting to help them from the carriage

verb

Behave in a servile way towards (someone).

Usage examples:

He had lacqueyed and flattered walpole

noun

A servant or someone who behaves like one by obeying someone else's orders or by doing unpleasant work for them

Usage examples:

He treats us all like his lackeys.

noun

A person whose job it is to look after someone or something.

Usage examples:

A baby-minder

noun

Someone who protects another person, often a famous person, from danger and unwanted public attention

Usage examples:

The president arrived surrounded by his minders., his public-relations minder refused to allow him …

noun

A follower or underling of a powerful person, especially a servile or unimportant one.

Usage examples:

He gets oppressed minions like me to fob them off

noun

A person who is not important and who has to do what another person of higher rank orders them to do

Usage examples:

He sent one of his minions to do something about it.

noun

A person or thing that protects someone or something.

Usage examples:

A man who became her protector, adviser, and friend

noun

Someone or something that protects people or things from injury or damage

Usage examples:

After his parents died, he became the protector of his sisters., a $20 surge protector can save you…

noun

An artificial body placed in orbit round the earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication.

Usage examples:

A communications satellite

noun

A natural object moving around a larger object in space, or an artificial object sent up into space to travel around the earth

Usage examples:

A spy/weather satellite, the moon is a satellite of the earth.

noun

A piece of equipment that is sent up into space to travel round the earth, used for collecting information or communicating by radio, television, etc.

Usage examples:

The cost of launching a satellite into orbit is vast., by satellite he will address the trade conve…

noun

A dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface.

Usage examples:

Trees cast long shadows

verb

Short for eyeshadow.

noun

An area of darkness caused when light is blocked by something, usually in a shape similar to the object that is blocking the light

Usage examples:

[ c ] chloë kept jumping on tyler’s shadow., [ u ] this corner of the room is always in shadow., [ …

noun

A person's assistant or close associate, especially one who has less authority than that person.

Usage examples:

Sherlock holmes' bumbling sidekick watson

noun

A friend, or a person who works with someone more important

Usage examples:

The course will focus on fictional master sleuth sherlock holmes and his sidekick dr. watson.

noun

A subordinate used by another to do unpleasant routine work.

Usage examples:

Party stooges put there to do a job on behalf of central office

verb

Move about aimlessly; drift or cruise.

Usage examples:

She stooged around in the bathroom for a while

noun

A person who is forced or paid by someone in authority to do an unpleasant or secret job for them

Usage examples:

The newly appointed mayor is widely regarded as a government stooge.

adjective

Lower in rank or position.

Usage examples:

His subordinate officers

noun

A person under the authority or control of another within an organization.

Usage examples:

He was mild-mannered, especially with his subordinates

verb

Treat or regard as of lesser importance than something else.

Usage examples:

Practical considerations were subordinated to political expediency

noun

A person who approves of and encourages a public figure, political party, policy, etc.

Usage examples:

Labour supporters

noun

A person who actively helps someone

Usage examples:

Supporters of the bill expect it to pass., he is a strong supporter of states’ rights.

noun

A person who behaves obsequiously to someone important.

Usage examples:

He calls it a ‘parasite’, which she learned in school is usually defined as a hanger-on, a toady, a…

verb

Act in an obsequious way.

Usage examples:

She imagined him toadying to his rich clients

noun

A person who praises and is artificially pleasant to people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them

Usage examples:

Everywhere he goes he is surrounded by an entourage of toadies., shostakovich was often seen as a p…

noun

A person lower in status or rank.

Usage examples:

She was shouting orders at underlings between gulps of coffee

noun

A person of low rank and little authority who works for someone more important

Usage examples:

She surrounded herself with underlings who were too afraid of her to answer back.