English Dictionary

doyen

/ˈdɔɪ.ən/

noun

(obsolete) A commander in charge of ten men. / The senior, or eldest male member of a group. / (colloquial) A leading light, or exemplar of a particular practice or movement.

The doyen led his troops into battle.

意味（1）

(obsolete) A commander in charge of ten men.

意味（2）

The senior, or eldest male member of a group.

At every turn, Collyers's aggressive new management in London was out-maneuvering and out promoting the double doyens of the rarefied art auction world. Old-timers at Collyers referred to Christie's and Sotheby's as “the Cow and the Sow,” lumping them together in frequent attitudes of disdain, in an attempt to make up for decades of being the brunt of bad jokes.

意味（3）

(colloquial) A leading light, or exemplar of a particular practice or movement.

Unlike the latter, however, Shifu's seriousness allowed no compromise; his criticism of Zhang ji even brought him into conflict with Wu Zhihui, one of the doyens of anarchism in China.