Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word ROYAL
ROYAL
Definitions of ROYAL
- Having the air or demeanour of a monarch; illustrious; magnanimous; of more than common size or excellence.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies.
- The fourth tine of an antler's beam.
- A stag with twelve points (six on each antler).
- An old English gold coin, the rial.
- A tuft of beard on the lower lip.
- A Old English surname from Old English.
- A male given name from English from the surname
- (soccer) someone connected with Reading Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
- A male given name from the word "royal".
- (UK, historical) A member of the first regiment of foot in the British army.
- Of or relating to a monarch or his (or her) family.
- (nautical) In large sailing ships, of a mast right above the topgallant mast and its sails.
- (boxing, military) Free-for-all, especially involving multiple combatants.
- (informal) Used as an intensifier.
- (chess) Describing a piece which, if captured, results in loss of game.
- (somewhat, informal, often capitalised) A royal person; a member of a royal family.
- (paper, printing) A standard size of printing paper, measuring 25 by 20 inches.
- (paper) A standard size of writing paper, measuring 24 by 19 inches.
- (dated) The Australian decimal currency intended to replace the pound in 1966; was changed to "dollar" before it was actually circulated.
- (nautical, sailing) In large sailing ships, square sail over the topgallant sail.
- (military) A small mortar.
- (card games) In auction bridge, a royal spade.
- (campanology) Bell changes rung on ten bells.
- Alternative form of royal. (in capitalised proper nouns, e.g. Royal Navy, Royal Mail)
Number of letters
5
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using ROYAL in a Sentence
- Arne Kaijser (born 1950) is a professor emeritus of history of technology at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and a former president of the Society for the History of Technology.
- He served in both world wars, as a lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in the First World War and as a captain in the Home Guard in the Second World War.
- Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Royal Magazine in December 1927, "The Tuesday Night Club", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems (1932).
- The Hebrew Bible relates that, unlike Moses, who grew up in the Egyptian royal court, Aaron and his elder sister Miriam remained with their kinsmen in the northeastern region of the Nile Delta.
- Born to a wealthy family in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, Crowley rejected his parents' fundamentalist Christian Plymouth Brethren faith to pursue an interest in Western esotericism.
- Considered one of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt, the sacred city of Abydos was the site of many ancient temples, including Umm el-Qa'ab, a royal necropolis where early pharaohs were entombed.
- Ahmed's reign is noteworthy for marking the first breach in the Ottoman tradition of royal fratricide; henceforth, Ottoman rulers would no longer systematically execute their brothers upon accession to the throne.
- He was the fifth son of Malcolm III and his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Edward Ætheling, a prince of the pre-conquest English royal house.
- In the later medieval period it became a standard name in the Hispanic and Portuguese royal families.
- Alexander Selkirk (167613 December 1721) was a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent four years and four months as a castaway (1704–1709) after being marooned by his captain, initially at his request, on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean.
- There are two officers, the senior being the astronomer royal dating from 22 June 1675; the junior is the astronomer royal for Scotland dating from 1834.
- More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967.
- Aston Martin has held a royal warrant as purveyor of motorcars to Charles III (as Prince of Wales and later as King) since 1982, and has over 160 car dealerships in 53 countries, making it a global automobile brand.
- Arthur Phillip (11 October 1738 – 31 August 1814) was a British Royal Navy officer who served as the first governor of the Colony of New South Wales.
- Born at Guildford in Surrey, where his father Maurice Abbot (died 1606) was a cloth worker, he was taught at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford.
- It is a part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF), along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force.
- Documents from Danzig/Gdańsk (Royal Prussia) reported that an Andreas Schlüter (senior) had worked 1640–1652 in Danzig's Jopengasse lane (today's ulica Piwna).
- The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State.
- It premiered at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month.
- According to Buddhist legends, he was born in Lumbini, in what is now Nepal, to royal parents of the Shakya clan, but renounced his home life to live as a wandering ascetic.
- Montgomery first saw action in the First World War as a junior officer of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
- Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is often at the centre of state occasions and royal hospitality.
- It was the largest naval battle and only full-scale clash of battleships of the war, and the outcome ensured that the Royal Navy denied the German surface fleet access to the North Sea and the Atlantic for the remainder of the war, as Germany avoided all fleet-to-fleet contact thereafter.
- British Standards (BS) are the standards produced by the BSI Group which is incorporated under a royal charter and which is formally designated as the national standards body (NSB) for the UK.
- Its name originates from the gin and tonic popularised by the Royal Indian Armed Forces during the British Raj in colonial India; "Bombay" refers to the Indian city and "Sapphire" refers to the violet-blue Star of Bombay which was mined from British Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and is now on display at the Smithsonian Institution.
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