cortege

C3O1R1T1E1G2E1
UK/kɔɹˈtɛʒ/US/ˈkɔɹ.tɛʒ/

noun

A ceremonial procession, especially for a wedding or funeral or following a monarch.

Similar
entourageganggroupfollowershipposseretinuesuite
OriginFrench cortège →
UncommonScrabble 10
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nouncortege (plural corteges)

plural corteges · alternative cortège

  1. collectiveA ceremonial procession, especially for a wedding or funeral or following a monarch.

    Upon the morrow after their marriage, the bride and bridegroom perambulate the streets, followed by a numerous cortege, the guests at the wedding festival, two and two

    1660 February 2 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “January 24th, 1659–1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume (please specify |volume=I to X), London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893–1899, →OCLC

    Synonyms: entourage, gang, group, followership, posse, retinue

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA ceremonial procession, especially for a wedding or funeral or following a monarch.

Similar
entourageganggroupfollowershipposseretinue

More synonyms by meaning

nounthe group following and attending to some important person

Similar
retinuesuiteentourage
Broader
gatheringassemblage
Also see
entourageretinuesuite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Frenchcortège
  2. Frenchcortège
  3. Englishcortege

Borrowed from French cortège.

More words from French

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Arabic مَوْكِب
  • مَوْكِب (mawkib)a ceremonial procession
Bulgarian кортеж
  • кортеж (kortež)a ceremonial procession
Chinese Mandarin 遊行隊伍 /游行队伍
  • 遊行隊伍 /游行队伍 (yóuxíng duìwǔ)a ceremonial procession
Czech průvod
  • průvoda ceremonial procession
Finnish kulkue
  • kulkuea ceremonial procession
French cortège
  • cortègea ceremonial procession
Norwegian Bokmål kortesje
  • kortesjea ceremonial procession
Russian корте́ж
  • корте́ж (kortɛ́ž)a ceremonial procession
Spanish cortejo
  • cortejoa ceremonial procession
Swedish kortege, tåg
  • kortegea ceremonial procession
  • tåga ceremonial procession
Cite this entry
APA

cortege. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cortege

MLA

“cortege.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cortege. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cortege,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cortege.

Source: cortege on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.