royal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɔɪ.əl/
ipa: /ˈɹɔɪ(.ə)l/
rhymes: -ɔɪəl
homophone: roil (certain accents)
Forms: form: royaler
form: royaller
form: royalest
form: royallest
form: r.
form: roial
form: roiall
form: royall
form: royaler
Etymology: From Middle English royal, from Old French roial (Modern French royal), from Latin rēgālis, from rēx (“king”). Doublet of regal (“befitting a king”), real (“unit of currency”), ariary, and riyal. Cognate with Spanish real. Displaced native Old English cynelīċ.
Senses: examples: text: He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again her partner was haled off with a frightened look to the royal circle, […]
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:
text: On the first Friday morning of his kingship he went into the kitchen and called for his royal chef.
ref: 2011, Marilyn Price, Grandma's Cookies, page 7:
glosses: Of or relating to a monarch or his (or her) family.
examples: text: How doth that royal Merchant good Anthonio;
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 175, column 2:
glosses: Having the air or demeanour of a monarch; illustrious; magnanimous; of more than common size or excellence.
examples: text: royal mast;  royal sail
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: In large sailing ships, of a mast right above the topgallant mast and its sails.
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Free-for-all, especially involving multiple combatants.
examples: text: a royal pain in the neck
glosses: Used as an intensifier.
examples: text: Maharajah and the Sepoys pits a single royal amazon for white against a standard chess army for black.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Describing a piece which, if captured, results in loss of game.
Synonyms: sense: of a monarch
english: of a king
translation: of a king
word: kingly
sense: of a monarch
word: monarchical
sense: of a monarch
english: of a prince
translation: of a prince
word: princely
sense: of a monarch
english: of a queen
translation: of a queen
word: queenly
sense: of a monarch
word: regal
sense: of a monarch
word: roy
sense: having a monarch's air
word: majestic
sense: having a monarch's air
word: regal
sense: having a monarch's air
word: stately
word: major
Derived terms: Annapolis Royal
Astronomer Royal
ballade royal
battle royal
battle-royal
blood royal
chant royal
coffee royal
Farnham Royal
Front Royal
give the royal treatment
half-royal
imperial-royal
kir royal
mound royal
Mount Royal
non-royal
pair royal
Park Royal
Port Royal
Port Royal Island
puliol royal
rhyme royal
rhythm royal
rime royal
Royal
royal abundance
royal albatross
royal antelope
Royal Arch
royal assent
royal auction bridge
Royal Bencher
royal blue
royal borough
royal bumps
royal burgh
royal cashmere
royal casino
royal chinchilla
royal commission
royal crown
royal cubit
royal cypher
royal disease
royal duck
royal family
royal fern
royal fish
royal flush
royal flycatcher
royal fork
royal fox
royal gala
Royal Highness
royal household
royal icing
royalism
royalist
royalistic
royalistical
royalistically
royal jasmine
royal jelly
royal kite
Royal Leamington Spa
royal letter
royally
Royal Marine
Royal Marines
royal marriage
royal mast
royal metal
royal moth
Royal Oak
royal pain
royal palm
royal penguin
royal penstemon
royal poinciana
royal progress
royal purple
royal python
royal rat
royal red prawn
royal road
royal scamp
royal spoonbill
royal standard
royal starfish
royal stars
royal straight flush
royal stremma
royal tennis
royal tern
royal touch
royal train
royalty
royal walnut
royal walnut moth
royal wand
royal warrant
royal we
royal wedding
Royal Wootton Bassett
spur-royal
super-royal
Their Royal Majesties
Related terms: english: unit of currency
translation: unit of currency
word: real
word: realm