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dignitary
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun dignitary has 1 sense
- dignitary(n = noun.person) high muckamuck, high-up, panjandrum, very important person, vip - an important or influential (and often overbearing) person; Array is a kind of important person, influential person, personage
OXFORD DICTIONARY
dignitary, n. (pl. -ies) a person holding high rank or office.
Etymology
DIGNITY + -ARY(1), after PROPRIETARY
THESAURUS
dignitary
Establishment, VIP, baron, big cheese, big gun, big man, big name, big noise, big shot, big wheel, bigwig, brass, brass hat, celebrity, chief, dignity, elder, eminence, fat cat, father, figure, great man, high-muck-a-muck, higher-up, hotshot, important person, interests, lion, lords of creation, luminary, magnate, man of mark, mogul, nabob, name, notability, notable, official, panjandrum, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, power, power elite, ruling circle, sachem, somebody, something, star, superstar, the great, the top, top brass, top people, tycoon, very important person, worthy
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