dignitary

He was treated as a celebrity and dignitary, more like a head of state than the head of an infamous defense contracting company.

Tennis dignitary Chris Evert stands behind her, forced into rapturous laughter along with 14,000 others inside the arena.

We are the bridge between the foreign visiting dignitary and the U.S. government.

“Large crowds flocked to the jail, where they greeted him like a visiting dignitary,” Gardner writes.

Many of them, such as a visiting French dignitary fresh off a plane from Paris at the age of 103, proved that 90 is the new 30.

Bespectacled and wearing a proper suit, Ban looked every bit the serious dignitary.

I desired him to accompany me to call on this dignitary, but he did not seem at all anxious for the job.

The high-priest was a great dignitary, and generally belonged to the royal family.

His deportment at this solemn ceremony, as related by a church dignitary, was fully edifying.

It was not long before the curtain was drawn aside again, and one entered who seemed to be a dignitary of the court.

And this great dignitary pointed to me with scorn and said: "Number one foolo."