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curial

UK/ˈkjʊəɹɪəl/

curial adjective: pertaining to a court; courtly.

Adjective

curial (comparative more curial, superlative most curial)

  1. Pertaining to a court; courtly.
  2. Pertaining to the papal curia.
    • In favouring the well-connected, politically and culturally sophisticated Italian merchants and diplomats who regularly arrived in England on curial business Henry killed two birds with one stone, gratifying popes by the attention and respect shown to their intimates, and employing them as his own...2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 116

Noun

curial (plural curials)

  1. A member of a curia, especially of that of Rome or the later Italian sovereignties.

curial meaning in Bengali

curial in Bengali

আদালত, রাজসভা সংক্রান্ত, রাজকীয়, কিউরিয়ার একজন সদস্য

Forms of curial

Adjective
comparativemore curial
superlativemost curial
Noun
pluralcurials

Origin of curial

Borrowed from Middle French curial, from Latin cūriālis.

Words formed from curial

Questions about curial

What does curial mean?
Curial means pertaining to a court; courtly.
What is curial in Bengali?
Curial in Bengali is আদালত, রাজসভা সংক্রান্ত, রাজকীয়. See Curial meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is curial?
Curial can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce curial?
Curial is pronounced /ˈkjʊəɹɪəl/ (UK).

Words near curial in the dictionary

  1. curglaff
  2. curia
  3. Curia Muria
  4. curia regis
  5. curiae
  6. curial
  7. curialism
  8. curialist
  9. curialistic
  10. curialists
  11. curialities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curial (page history and authors); curial (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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