What does entourage mean?
Word: Entourage
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Entourage means the group of people who travel with an important person and look after them.
How do you spell entourage?
Syllables: en - tou - rage
Tricky part: The sound in the middle is spelt ou, the pair in the word tour. Students who drop a letter write entorage or enturage.
Watch out for: entorage, enturage, entaurage
Memory tip: A film star on tour takes a whole team along, so the ou of tour stays in the word.
Entourage in a sentence
Example 1: The singer's entourage took up an entire floor of the hotel in Goa.
Example 2: A minister and his entourage walked through the new science block.
Example 3: Rhea joked that her little sister travels with an entourage of soft toys.
Fun Fact
The word comes from a French verb meaning to surround, which is exactly what such a group does wherever its star goes.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The film star arrived at the Jaipur festival with an entourege of assistants, drivers and make-up artists who filled the hotel lobby.
a) festival
b) lobby
c) assistants
d) entourege
Show answer
d) entourege. The ending is the age of the French word, the same three letters as in garage.
Mingle-Mangle
Unjumble the word in the sentence and choose it:
The cricket captain's eegaunrot of coaches and managers checked into the team hotel after midnight.
a) encourage
b) outrage
c) enterprise
d) entourage
Show answer
d) entourage. Encourage has a c, enterprise a p and outrage lacks the n, so only one option uses every letter.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word entourage as used in the sentence:
The chief minister's entourage waited patiently outside the school gate.
a) retinue
b) audience
c) vehicle
d) luggage
Show answer
a) retinue. A retinue is the group of helpers around an important person.
Spell-o-Spell
Three words in the list are spelt correctly and one is misspelt. Choose the meaning of the misspelt word.
1. procesion 2. entourage 3. celebrity 4. companion
a) a person who spends time with you
b) a famous person, especially in entertainment
c) a line of people moving along in an orderly way
d) the helpers who accompany a famous figure
Show answer
c) a line of people moving along in an orderly way. Only procession is wrong here: it needs a double s.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these is least likely to be part of a singer's entourage?
a) a personal assistant on the road with her
b) a make-up artist hired for the whole tour
c) a stranger in the back row of the concert
d) a manager who handles her daily diary
Show answer
c) a stranger in the back row of the concert
2. A report says a visiting president 'came without her usual entourage'. What does this tell us?
a) she arrived without a formal speech to give
b) she arrived without her official state car
c) she arrived later than she had planned to
d) she arrived with very few people around her
Show answer
d) she arrived with very few people around her
