doyen
doy in
- n a man who is the senior member of a group
- After the film screening reporters ran into John Smith, the doyen of movie critics.
- Designed by the international architectural doyens, Burj Khalifa is the tallest manmade structure in the world.
- The Portuguese doyen, Manoel de Oliveira, indestructible at 98, had a film here (he co-starred with his grandson), as did Eric Rohmer, 87, Richard Attenborough, 84, Sidney Lumet .