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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

artist, authority, bell cow, bellwether, chief, dean, doyenne, elder, eldest, father, first-born, firstling, guide, high priest, important person, kingfish, kingpin, lead, leader, master, maven, older, oldest, personage, pilot, principal, proficient, senior, sire, superior, top dog, virtuoso

Dictionary Results for doyen:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

doyen
    n 1: a man who is the senior member of a group; "he is the dean
         of foreign correspondents" [syn: dean, doyen]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Doyen \Doy`en"\ (dw[aum]`y[aum]N"), n. [F. See Dean.]
   Lit., a dean; the senior member of a body or group; as, the
   doyen of French physicians. "This doyen of newspapers." --A.
   R. Colquhoun.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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