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Meanings of vip in English

Portuguese
dignitário
Catalan
personalitat
Spanish
personalidad

An important or influential (and often overbearing) person.

dignitário
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Examples for "dignitary"
Examples for "dignitary"
1
The dignitary retired, and the king was left alone in his apartment.
The Young Captives: A Story of Judah and Babylon
2
Presently the dignitary returned the picture and raised his head from thought.
Ronicky Doone
3
Then the doctor was hastily summoned by telephone; the dignitary was collapsing.
The Seven Who Were Hanged
4
If a foreign dignitary arrives, the flag of his nation is flown.
The new yorker
5
So they're excited at the prospect of preserving one last communist dignitary.
Wired
1
Why don't you get some of your friends to go for that wooden-faced panjandrum-eh
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
2
Anthony "Tones" Frobisher, the grand high panjandrum of Discount Electronix (Birch Hill Mall branch).
Mr. Mercedes
3
Are you responsible for this panjandrum to-night?
A Court of Inquiry
4
I did not care for all this panjandrum of punctiliousness, but was, I hope, civil and chatty with everybody.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
5
Doreen has balanced the tea tray on the top of her walker and pushes the whole panjandrum into the living.
Masked
1
The grown-up daughter, Frances, was a very important person in our world.
My Antonia
2
After them rides a very important person, the city marshal, on horseback.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1...
3
Isobel, as the central figure of this dissatisfaction, was a very important person.
A Knight of the Nets
4
The falconer, who took care of the hawks, was a very important person.
Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs
5
Surji Rao was first Minister to the Maharajah, and a very important person.
The Story of Sonny Sahib
1
I just loved to hear her, and she walked like high-up royalty.
Laddie: A True Blue Story
2
The penthouses have good balconies, some with high-up views of the Dublin mountains.
The Irish Times
1
Want to make me a high muckamuck, a grand sachem surrounded by his valiant bodyguard?
The Boys of Columbia High on the Gridiron : or, the Struggle for...
2
All the high muckamucks in and roundabout Florence will be getting out their jewels and gowns.
The Lure of the Mask
Usage of vip in English
1
Dickens, we knows you knows wot's wot, but can you, sir, 'andle a vip?'
The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick" / With Some Observations on T...
2
VIP Transport manager Steve Dyhrberg said there were some clear first impressions.
Radio NZ
3
For each positive identification, VIP creates a document containing all parameters used.
Fatal Voyage
4
Five days post treatment VIP was still significantly elevated compared to controls.
Pubmed
5
Our results showed that most VIP neurons very strongly signal heading direction.
Pubmed
6
VIP punters are typically brought in by middlemen known as junket companies.
Reuters
7
However, the station will be receiving VIPs in the next few cycles.
The Burning Dark
8
Robert Scoble rocks the VIP area at the Digg party Saturday night.
Wired
9
Innervation of the early anterior chamber was also demonstrated by VIP-LIR fibers.
Pubmed
10
We show up as ordinary slobs, and two minutes later we're VIPs.
The hellfire club
11
Cerutty as items to show to politicians, VIPs or the royal family.
News.com.au
12
Much as in Iraq, another of the Osprey's roles is VIP transport.
Wired
13
That last package does not include tickets to the exclusive VIP party.
Reuters
14
Even Meina Gladstone and her cluster of ultra-VIPs glanced down our way.
The Hyperion Cantos
15
Michelle uses a key card to open a door marked VIP Lounge.
Getting old is tres dangereux
16
Bob Lutz stands in the corner of the General Motors VIP section.
The Irish Times
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