noun
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A commander in charge of ten men.
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The senior, or eldest male member of a group.
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A leading light, or exemplar of a particular practice or movement.
Examples of doyen in a Sentence
Even more surprising is the absence of awards for ' Emperor ', the doyen of yellow trumpet daffodils.
This also features the voices of Scarlett Johansson and Alec Baldwin, rapidly becoming the doyen of kid's movies.
In 1836 he was elected a member of the Academie des sciences politiques et morales, was raised to the peerage in 1839 and in 1843 became doyen of the faculty of law.
On the 15th of August 1461, Louis was anointed at Reims, and Philip of Burgundy, as doyen of the peers of France, placed the crown on his head.
Vigee-Lebrun, Marie-Anne Elisabeth (1755-1842), French painter, was born in Paris, the daughter of a painter, from whom she received her first instruction, though she benefited more by the advice of Doyen, Greuze, Joseph Vernet and other masters of the period.