ROYALIST

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• ROYALIST (noun)
  The noun ROYALIST has 2 senses:

1. an advocate of the principles of monarchy

2. a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War

  Familiarity information: ROYALIST used as a noun is rare.

• ROYALIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An advocate of the principles of monarchy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

monarchist; royalist

Hypernyms ("royalist" is a kind of...):

right-winger; rightist (a member of a right wing political party)

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

Cavalier; Royalist (a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War)

Orleanist (a supporter of the Orleans branch of the Bourbons that was descended from a younger brother of Louis XIV)

Derivation:

royalism (adherence or attachment to a monarchy or to the principle of monarchal government)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cavalier; Royalist

Hypernyms ("Royalist" is a kind of...):

monarchist; royalist (an advocate of the principles of monarchy)

 Context examples 

Then there was Monsieur Rudin, the French Royalist refugee who lived over on the Pangdean road, and who, when the news of a victory came in, was convulsed with joy because we had beaten Buonaparte, and shaken with rage because we had beaten the French, so that after the Nile he wept for a whole day out of delight and then for another one out of fury, alternately clapping his hands and stamping his feet.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)