doyen

Preposition: of

• historian: Although Macaulay was the doyen of the Whig historians, Butterfield did not cite him explicitly.
• writer: The doyen of writers on math in the media is John Allen Paulos.
• study: J. G. Simms, the doyen of Irish Jacobite studies, drew the curtain on Jacobite Ireland after 1691.
• world: Dublin Horse Show in Ireland is a great social event for the doyens of the horse world.
• designer: Lethaby Gallery, Southampton Row, London WC1 Derek Birdsall has been described as the doyen of British book designers.
• music: Playing classic New Orleans and swinging jazz, he is a doyen of the music of Sidney Bechet.

Converse of object

• become: This also features the voices of Scarlett Johansson and Alec Baldwin, rapidly becoming the doyen of kid's movies.