meiny
Americannoun
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Archaic. a group or suite of attendants, followers, dependents, etc.
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Scot. Archaic. a multitude; crowd.
noun
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a retinue or household
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a crowd
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of meiny
1250–1300; Middle English meynee household < Old French meyne, mesnie, mesnede < Vulgar Latin *mānsiōnāta. See mansion, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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With great honor his meiny gained the meed.
From The Nibelungenlied by Shumway, Daniel Bussier
Then Abram said to Lot: Lo! this country is great and wide, I pray thee to choose on which hand thou wilt go, and take it for thy meiny and thy beasts.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Wells, Philip P.
They deemed the Knight wonder sore The Abbot and his meiny, But he come this ilk day Disherited shall he be.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
Well know I yon bright meiny, whom here we have at hand; They are the choicest warriors; of th' Amelungers' land.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
The noble meiny no longer tarried, but rode to where they found many broad pavilions; there ample service stood ready for the guests.
From The Nibelungenlied by Shumway, Daniel Bussier
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