DOYEN Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

doyen

noun

ˈdȯi-ən

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as in veteran

a person with long experience in a specified area considered the doyen of American art critics

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as in dean

the senior member of a group he's the doyen of American museum directors, and his opinion has considerable weight

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Recent Examples of doyen Senator Chuck Schumer, doyen of the party’s establishment wing and one of the country’s most-prominent Jewish politicians, never publicly backed Mamdani. —

Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025 Sorkin, Kernen and Quick have been anchoring the show together for the last 14 years, with Kernen serving as the doyen of the group, going to back to its 1995 debut. —

Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025 My first tax boss was Stephen Land, a doyen of the international tax bar in New York, now retired. —

Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025 The economist Robert Gordon, doyen of the skeptics, has noted that the average growth of U.S. output per worker was 2.3 percent a year between 1891 and 1972. —

Martin Wolf, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2015 See All Example Sentences for doyen

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Voters in the June 16 Democratic runoff for insurance commissioner will choose between an Atlanta politician with a long record of public service but who is also in the midst of a significant campaign ethics probe or an industry veteran with two decades of experience but no time in office.

— Riley Bunch, AJC.com, 4 June 2026
Spencer, an Army veteran with no law enforcement experience, defeated Staley, a Republican who’d been in office for over 13 years.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 4 June 2026