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doyen

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈdɔɪ.ən/Part of speech nounSorted denoyStarts with DEnds with N0 cluesCommon crossword word
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  1. a man who is the senior member of a group

Word origin

Borrowed from French doyen, from Late Latin decānus, from Latin decem. Compare the doublet dean.

Used in a sentence

  • Every prison has its doyen, and for us politicals it was Denis Goldberg.
  • Unlike the latter, however, Shifu's seriousness allowed no compromise; his criticism of Zhang ji even brought him into conflict with Wu Zhihui, one of the doyens of anarchism in China.

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