royal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
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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, Italian reale, Catalan reial. Displaced native Old English cynelīċ.
Inflected forms:
form: royaler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: royaller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: royalest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: royallest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: r.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: roial
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: roiall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: royall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: royaler
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: royals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: r.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: roial
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: roiall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: royall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: royaler
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a monarch or his (or her) family.
pos: adj
examples: 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, […]
On the first Friday morning of his kingship he went into the kitchen and called for his royal chef.
gloss: Having the air or demeanour of a monarch; illustrious; magnanimous; of more than common size or excellence.
pos: adj
examples: How doth that royal Merchant good Anthonio;
gloss: In large sailing ships, of a mast right above the topgallant mast and its sails.
pos: adj
examples: royal mast;  royal sail
gloss: Free-for-all, especially involving multiple combatants.
pos: adj
gloss: Used as an intensifier.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: a royal pain in the neck
Whoo! I'll show YOU a royal good time.
gloss: Describing a piece which, if captured, results in loss of game.
pos: adj
examples: Maharajah and the Sepoys pits a single royal amazon for white against a standard chess army for black.
gloss: A royal person; a member of a royal family.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
informal
often
examples: Andy noted in RAIL 462: "The Royals are bound to have a great say in the decoration of the train and it speaks volumes for their regard for it that there are so many portraits of previous Royal Trains and items presented on trips. I sense they're extremely fond of it."
gloss: A standard size of printing paper, measuring 25 by 20 inches.
pos: noun
gloss: A standard size of writing paper, measuring 24 by 19 inches.
pos: noun
gloss: The Australian decimal currency intended to replace the pound in 1966; was changed to "dollar" before it was actually circulated.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: Any of various lycaenid butterflies.
pos: noun
gloss: The fourth tine of an antler's beam.
pos: noun
gloss: A stag with twelve points (six on each antler).
pos: noun
gloss: In large sailing ships, square sail over the topgallant sail.
pos: noun
examples: in ten days after we spoke the Solon, so rapid was his recovery, that, from lying helpless and almost hopeless in his berth, he was at the mast-heId, furling a royal.
gloss: An old English gold coin, the rial.
pos: noun
gloss: A small mortar.
pos: noun
gloss: In auction bridge, a royal spade.
pos: noun
gloss: A tuft of beard on the lower lip.
pos: noun
gloss: Bell changes rung on ten bells.
pos: noun
Synonyms: major
Related words: real
realm
emperor
imperial
king
monarch
prince
princess
queen
Derived words: Annapolis Royal
antiroyal
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
nonroyal
pair royal
Park Royal
Port Royal
Port Royal Island
puliol royal
rhyme royal
rhythm royal
rime royal
Royal
royal abundance
royal albatross
royal angelfish
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 cowslip
royal crown
royal cubit
royal cypher
royal disease
royal duck
royalet
royal family
royal fern
royal fish
royal flush
royal flycatcher
royal fork
royal fox
royal gala
Royal George
Royal Highness
royal house
royal household
royal icing
royalise
royalism
royalist
royalistic
royalistical
royalistically
royalization
royalize
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 National Park
royalness
Royal Oak
royal pain
royal palm
Royal Palm Beach
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 star
royal starfish
royal straight flush
royal stremma
royal tennis
royal tern
royal touch
royal train
Royal Tunbridge Wells
royalty
royal walnut
royal walnut moth
royal wand
royal warrant
royal we
royal wedding
Royal Wootton Bassett
royal yellow
semiroyal
spur-royal
super-royal
superroyal
surroyal
Their Royal Majesties
unroyal
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