English Dictionary

doyen

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈdɔɪ.ən/

名詞

廃用 口語

(obsolete) A commander in charge of ten men. / The senior, or eldest male member of a group. / (colloquial) A leading light, or exemplar of a particular practice or movement.

日本語の意味

（古語）10人隊の指揮官 / グループの年長者または最年長の男性 / （口語）その分野の重鎮、または先駆者

The old doyen issued orders to his ten men before they set out on the night's patrol.

年老いた十人を率いる指揮官は、夜の巡回に出る前に部下たちに命令を出した。

意味（1）

(obsolete) A commander in charge of ten men.

意味（2）

The senior, or eldest male member of a group.

At every turn, Collyers's aggressive new management in London was out-maneuvering and out promoting the double doyens of the rarefied art auction world. Old-timers at Collyers referred to Christie's and Sotheby's as “the Cow and the Sow,” lumping them together in frequent attitudes of disdain, in an attempt to make up for decades of being the brunt of bad jokes.

意味（3）

(colloquial) A leading light, or exemplar of a particular practice or movement.

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.

doyens （ plural ）