ROYAL COURT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does royal court mean? 

• ROYAL COURT (noun)
  The noun ROYAL COURT has 2 senses:

1. the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince

2. the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state

  Familiarity information: ROYAL COURT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROYAL COURT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The family and retinue of a sovereign or prince

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

court; royal court

Hypernyms ("royal court" is a kind of...):

cortege; entourage; retinue; suite (the group following and attending to some important person)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

court; royal court

Hypernyms ("royal court" is a kind of...):

authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "royal court"):

Court of Saint James's (the British royal court)

Porte; Sublime Porte (the Ottoman court in Constantinople)

 Context examples 

Then the waiting-maid got upon Falada, and the real bride rode upon the other horse, and they went on in this way till at last they came to the royal court.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A courtesy title for an ecclesiastic attached to the chapel of a royal court, college, etc., or to a military unit.

(Chaplain, NCI Thesaurus)

Then he could easily guess what had happened, and much grief reigned in the royal court.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)