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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
royal
adjective
1: of or relating to or indicative of or issued or performed by
a king or queen or other monarch; "the royal party";
"the royal crest"; "by royal decree"; "a royal visit"
2: established or chartered or authorized by royalty; "the
Royal Society"
3: being of the rank of a monarch; "of royal ancestry";
"princes of the blood royal"
4: belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; "golden age of
imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire";
"treated with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a
stag's head" [syn: {imperial}, {majestic}, {purple}, {regal}]
5: invested with royal power as symbolized by a crown; "the
royal (or crowned) heads of Europe"
noun
1: a sail set next above the topgallant on a royal mast
2: stag with antlers of 12 or more branches [syn: {royal stag}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Royal \Roy"al\, adjective [OE. roial, riall, real, OF. roial. reial, F.
royal, fr. L. regalis, fr. rex, regis, king. See {Rich}, and
cf. {regal}, {real} a coin, {Rial}.]
1. Kingly; pertaining to the crown or the sovereign; suitable
for a king or queen; regal; as, royal power or
prerogative; royal domains; the royal family; royal state.
2. Noble; generous; magnificent; princely.
How doth that royal merchant, good Antonio? --Shak.
3. Under the patronage of royality; holding a charter granted
by the sovereign; as, the Royal Academy of Arts; the Royal
Society.
{Battle royal}. See under {Battle}.
{Royal bay} (Bot.), the classic laurel ({Laurus nobilis}.)
{Royal eagle}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Golden eagle}, under {Golden}.
{Royal fern} (Bot.), the handsome fern {Osmunda regalis}. See
{Osmund}.
{Royal mast} (Naut.), the mast next above the topgallant mast
and usually the highest on a square-rigged vessel. The
royal yard and royal sail are attached to the royal mast.
{Royal metal}, an old name for gold.
{Royal palm} (Bot.), a magnificent West Indian palm tree
({Oreodoxa regia}), lately discovered also in Florida.
{Royal pheasant}. See {Curassow}.
{Royal purple}, an intense violet color, verging toward blue.
{Royal tern} (Zo["o]l.), a large, crested American tern
({Sterna maxima}).
{Royal tiger}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Tiger}.
{Royal touch}, the touching of a diseased person by the hand
of a king, with the view of restoring to health; --
formerly extensively practiced, particularly for the
scrofula, or king's evil.
Syn: Kingly; regal; monarchical; imperial; kinglike;
princely; august; majestic; superb; splendid;
illustrious; noble; magnanimous.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Royal \Roy"al\, noun
1. Printing and writing papers of particular sizes. See under
{paper}, noun
2. (Naut.) A small sail immediately above the topgallant
sail. --Totten.
3. (Zo["o]l.) One of the upper or distal branches of an
antler, as the third and fourth tynes of the antlers of a
stag.
4. (Gun.) A small mortar.
5. (Mil.) One of the soldiers of the first regiment of foot
of the British army, formerly called the Royals, and
supposed to be the oldest regular corps in Europe; -- now
called the Royal Scots.
6. An old English coin. See {Rial}.
7. (Auction Bridge) A royal spade.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
144 Moby Thesaurus words for "royal":
advantageous, anointed king, aristocratic, august, auspicious,
baron, baroness, baronial, beneficial, benevolent, bon, bonny,
braw, bueno, capital, champion, chief, chieftain, classical,
cogent, commendable, courtly, crown, crowned head, dignified,
duchess, duke, duodecimo, dynast, dynastic, earl, effortless,
eighteenmo, elegant, emperor, estimable, excellent, expedient,
facile, fair, famous, favorable, fine, folio, front, glorious,
good, goodly, grand, grand duke, grandiose, grave, healthy,
helpful, high chief, imperator, imperatorial, imperatorious,
imperial, imperious, imposing, impressive, kind, king,
king-emperor, kinglet, kinglike, kingly, laudable, light,
lord paramount, lordly, magisterial, magnificent, majestic,
majesty, medium, monarch, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic,
monarchical, nice, nobility, noble, nobleman, noblewoman,
number one, octavo, octodecimo, overlord, paramount, peer, peerage,
petty king, pleasant, potentate, prime, prince, prince consort,
princelike, princely, princess, profitable, purple, quarto, queen,
queenlike, queenly, rank, regal, resplendent, royal personage,
royalty, ruler, sedate, sextodecimo, simple, sixteenmo, skillful,
smooth, sober, solemn, sound, sovereign, splendid, stately,
statuesque, super, superb, superior, suzerain, tetrarch, top,
twelvemo, untroublesome, useful, valid, venerable, very good,
virtuous, viscount, viscountess, worthy
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Royal, AR
Zip code(s): 71968
Royal, IA (city, FIPS 69105)
Location: 43.06395 N, 95.28315 W
Population (1990): 466 (212 housing units)
Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 51357
Royal, IL (village, FIPS 66157)
Location: 40.19198 N, 87.97135 W
Population (1990): 217 (113 housing units)
Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Royal, NE (village, FIPS 42495)
Location: 42.33270 N, 98.12502 W
Population (1990): 81 (46 housing units)
Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 68773
Royal, TN
Zip code(s): 37160
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Royal, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 75
Housing Units (2000): 40
Land area (2000): 0.143227 sq. miles (0.370956 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.143227 sq. miles (0.370956 sq. km)
FIPS code: 42495
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 42.333688 N, 98.123833 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68773
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Royal, NE
Royal
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Royal, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 279
Housing Units (2000): 133
Land area (2000): 0.225019 sq. miles (0.582796 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.225019 sq. miles (0.582796 sq. km)
FIPS code: 66157
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 40.193408 N, 87.973189 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Royal, IL
Royal
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Royal, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 479
Housing Units (2000): 219
Land area (2000): 0.293103 sq. miles (0.759132 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.293103 sq. miles (0.759132 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69105
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 43.063951 N, 95.284790 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 51357
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Royal, IA
Royal
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