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ROYAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does royal mean?
• ROYAL (noun)
The noun ROYAL has 2 senses:
1. a sail set next above the topgallant on a royal mast
2. stag with antlers of 12 or more branches
Familiarity information: ROYAL used as a noun is rare.
• ROYAL (adjective)
The adjective ROYAL has 5 senses:
1. of or relating to or indicative of or issued or performed by a king or queen or other monarch
2. established or chartered or authorized by royalty
3. being of the rank of a monarch
4. belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
5. invested with royal power as symbolized by a crown
Familiarity information: ROYAL used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sail set next above the topgallant on a royal mast
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("royal" is a kind of...):
canvas; canvass; sail; sheet (a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Stag with antlers of 12 or more branches
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
royal; royal stag
Hypernyms ("royal" is a kind of...):
stag (adult male deer)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or indicative of or issued or performed by a king or queen or other monarch
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
a royal visit
Pertainym:
monarch (a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Established or chartered or authorized by royalty
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
the Royal Society
Pertainym:
royalty (royal persons collectively)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Being of the rank of a monarch
Context example:
princes of the blood royal
Similar:
noble (of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
Synonyms:
imperial; majestic; purple; regal; royal
Context example:
the royal carriage of a stag's head
Similar:
noble (of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Invested with royal power as symbolized by a crown
Context example:
the royal (or crowned) heads of Europe
Similar:
crowned (provided with or as if with a crown or a crown as specified; often used in combination)
Context examples
And the king sent two waiting-maids and two attendants into the tower, to fetch the queen and bring her to the royal table.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
“You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have the goodness, also, when you address me always to say ‘sir’ and ‘please.’”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Yet we have all heard the lengths to which your royal generosity runs.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Having a head mechanically turned, and being likewise forced by necessity, I had made for myself a table and chair convenient enough, out of the largest trees in the royal park.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Such royal carelessness of body seemed criminal.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
His very heart was bleeding, and it took all the manhood of him—and there was a royal lot of it, too—to keep him from breaking down.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Nevertheless, one hundred and forty pounds, to which was added the dignity that comes of good living and universal respect, enabled him to carry himself in right royal fashion.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Researchers have discovered that honey bees are able to share immunity with other bees and to their offspring in a hive by transmitting RNA ‘vaccines’ through royal jelly and worker jelly.
(Discovery of RNA transfer through royal jelly could aid development of honey bee vaccines, University of Cambridge)
“Here it is,” said he, “written with a J pen on royal cream paper by a middle-aged man with a weak constitution.”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A courtesy title for an ecclesiastic attached to the chapel of a royal court, college, etc., or to a military unit.
(Chaplain, NCI Thesaurus)
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