EGAVE

regal

About 1.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.
    regal authority
  2. adjective Befitting a monarch. Befitting a king or emperor.
  3. adjective Befitting a king or emperor.
  4. noun A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by brass beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the 16th and 17th centuries, and has been revived for the performance of music from those times.
  5. noun 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 16th and 17th centuries these stops took a multitude of forms. Today only one survives that is of universal currency, the so-called vox humana.

Similar words

royal imperial noble majestic purple kingly princely queenlike courtly queen

Often followed by

power and authority dignity books in period state government

Word family

regalities regality regally

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