See Also: doyen(dictionary)
doyen(dictionary)

doyen (iou)



doyen noun. LME.
[French: see DEAN noun1.]
A leader or commander of ten. rare. Only in LME.
The most senior or most prominent of a particular category or body of people. L17.
C. R. Attlee Smuts was the doyen and the only one of us who had taken part in the conduct of the First World War. J. Gross Saintsbury had become generally accepted as the doyen of academic critics, the nearest thing to a Critic Laureate.