meiny

American  

[may-nee] / ˈmeɪ ni /

Or meinie

noun

• meinies
  plural

1. Archaic. a group or suite of attendants, followers, dependents, etc.

2. Scot. Archaic. a multitude; crowd.

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meiny British  

/ ˈmeɪnɪ /

noun

1. a retinue or household

2. a crowd

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• meinies
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of meiny

1250–1300; Middle English meynee household < Old French meyne, mesnie, mesnede < Vulgar Latin *mānsiōnāta. See mansion, -ate ¹

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Example Sentences

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meiny

Then thither with his meiny came Dancrat's haughty son, And thither too grim Hagan; it had been better left undone.

From Song and Legend from the Middle Ages by Porter Lander MacClintock

Whate'er on Etzel's meiny had late been wrought by him, A puff was to the tempest that now to rise began; So furiously did battle the son of Aldrian.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

And when they in the castle wist how Sir Palomides had sped, there was a joyful meiny; and so Sir Palomides departed, and came to the castle of Lonazep.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Sir Thomas Malory

Then her meiny said: "Perchance it is a stranger knight."

From The Nibelungenlied by Daniel Bussier Shumway

Which is read in-the Church on Mid-lent Sunday These be the names of the children of Israel that entered into Egypt with Jacob, and each entered with their household and meiny.

From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells

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