Entourage vs. Posse — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Entourage and Posse
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Definitions
Entourage➦
A group of attendants or associates; a retinue.
Posse➦
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.
Entourage➦
One's environment or surroundings.
Posse➦
A search party.
Entourage➦
A retinue of attendants, associates or followers.
Posse➦
A gang involved in crimes such as running guns and illegal narcotics trafficking.
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Entourage➦
(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.
Posse➦
(Slang) A group of friends or associates.
Entourage➦
(architecture) Decorations, such as people, vehicles, or trees, appearing on an architectural sketch or rendering to make the site look more lively.
Posse➦
A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd.
Entourage➦
Surroundings; specif., collectively, one's attendants or associates.
The entourage and mode of life of the mikados were not such as to make of them able rulers.
Posse➦
A group of people summoned to help law enforcement.
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Entourage➦
The group following and attending to some important person
Posse➦
(US) A search party.
Posse➦
A criminal gang.
Posse➦
(colloquial) A group of (especially young) people seen as constituting a peer group or band of associates; a gang, a group of friends.
Posse➦
See Posse comitatus.
Posse➦
A temporary police force
