Dignitary Definition

dĭgnĭ-tĕrē
dignitaries
noun
dignitaries
A person holding a high, dignified position or office.
Webster's New World

An important or influential person, or one of high rank or position.

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adjective
Of or like a dignitary.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Dignitary

Noun

Singular:
dignitary
Plural:
dignitaries

Dignitary Sentence Examples

  • The highest county dignitary is the lord-lieutenant, the office dating from 1782.

  • The lord chief justice is, next to the lord chancellor, the highest judicial dignitary in the kingdom.

  • The master of the horse is the third dignitary of the court, and is always a member of the ministry (before 1782 the office was of cabinet rank), a peer and a privy councillor.

  • On returning from Tilsit to Paris he relieved Talleyrand of the ministry of foreign affairs, softening the fall by creating him a grand dignitary of the empire.

  • Any estate with a revenue exceeding 100,000 aspres was a khas, and was conferred on a prince or on a high dignitary as long as he held his post; for each 5000 aspres of revenue one armed warrior had to be furnished in war.

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