Entourage vs. Posse — What's the Difference?

A group of attendants or associates; a retinue.

A group of civilians called upon by a sheriff or other law enforcement official to assist temporarily in preserving the peace or pursuing and arresting a fugitive. Also called posse comitatus.

One's environment or surroundings.

A search party.

A retinue of attendants, associates or followers.

A gang involved in crimes such as running guns and illegal narcotics trafficking.

(topology) A binary relation in a uniform space which generalises the notion of two points being no farther apart than a given fixed distance; a uniform neighbourhood.

(Slang) A group of friends or associates.

(architecture) Decorations, such as people, vehicles, or trees, appearing on an architectural sketch or rendering to make the site look more lively.

A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd.

Surroundings; specif., collectively, one's attendants or associates.

A group of people summoned to help law enforcement.

The group following and attending to some important person

(US) A search party.

A criminal gang.

(colloquial) A group of (especially young) people seen as constituting a peer group or band of associates; a gang, a group of friends.

See Posse comitatus.

A temporary police force