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regal
English
Alternative forms
- regall (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??i???l/
Etymology 1
From Middle English regal, from Old French regal (“regal, royal”), from Latin r?g?lis (“royal, kingly”), from rex (“king”); also regere (“to rule”). Doublet of royal (“belonging to a monarch”) and real (“unit of currency”). Cognate with Spanish real.
Adjective
regal (comparative more regal, superlative most regal)
- Of or relating to royalty.
- Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress.
- Befitting a king, or emperor.
Coordinate terms
- reginal
Related terms
- regime
- regimen
Translations
See also
- kingly
- royal
- splendid
- stately
Etymology 2
From Middle French régale, possibly from Old French regol (“a gutter, channel”).
Noun
regal (plural regals)
- (music) A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; today it has been revived for the performance of music from those times.
- An organ stop of the reed family, furnished with a normal beating reed, but whose resonator is a fraction of its natural length. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries these stops took a multitude of forms. Today only one survives that is of universal currency, the so-called Vox Humana.
Translations
Anagrams
- Agler, Alger, Elgar, Large, Ragle, ergal, glare, lager, large
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /r???al/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /re??al/
Noun
regal m (plural regals)
- present; gift
Related terms
- regalar
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin r?g?lis. Compare the inherited reial, roial.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /re??al/
Adjective
regal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular regale)
- regal
Synonyms
- roial
Descendants
- English: regal
Romanian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin r?g?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /re??al/
Adjective
regal m or n (feminine singular regal?, masculine plural regali, feminine and neuter plural regale)
- royal
- regal
Declension
Synonyms
- regesc
Antonyms
- neregal
- neregesc
Related terms
- rege
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French régal.
Noun
regal n (plural regale)
- feast
- banquet
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lofty
English
Etymology
From Middle English lofty, lofti, lofte (“of high rank; noble; ornate”), equivalent to loft +? -y; see loft (“sky, firmament; upper room”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: l?ft?i, IPA(key): /?l?fti/
- (General American) enPR: lôft?i, IPA(key): /?l??fti/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) enPR: l?ft?i, IPA(key): /?l?fti/
- Rhymes: -?fti, -??fti
Adjective
lofty (comparative loftier, superlative loftiest)
- high, tall, having great height or stature
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 551:
- When the night was half spent, I rose and walked on, till the day broke in all its beauty and the sun rose over the heads of the lofty hills and athwart the low gravelly plains.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 551:
- idealistic, implying over-optimism
- a lofty goal
- 2013, Delme Parfitt in Wales Online, Cardiff City 1 - 0 Swansea City: Steven Caulker heads Bluebirds to South Wales derby win (3 November 2013)
- A goal from Steven Caulker, just after the hour mark, was enough to hand victory to Malky Mackay's men, with Swansea falling some way short of the lofty standards they have set previously at this level.
- extremely proud; arrogant; haughty
- F. Harrison
- that lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers
- F. Harrison
Synonyms
- (having great height or stature): noble, honorable
Antonyms
- (having great height or stature): mean, ignoble
- (idealistic): familiar, vulgar
Related terms
- loft
- aloft
Translations
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