Word.ws English Dictionary

giving the royal treatment

giving the royal treatment is the present participle and gerund of give the royal treatment.

Meaning of give the royal treatment

Verb

give the royal treatment (third-person singular simple present gives the royal treatment, present participle giving the royal treatment, simple past gave the royal treatment, past participle given the royal treatment)

  1. (idiomatic) To treat (someone) extremely well.
    • We would spit in the food of difficult customers and give the royal treatment to those who treated us with respect. I could never comprehend how a patron could treat somebody they entrusted with their food with anything but the utmost of esteem...2006, Michael Eliot Mehler, Nice Jewish Felon, page 113

Questions about giving the royal treatment

What is giving the royal treatment the present participle and gerund of?
Giving the royal treatment is the present participle and gerund of give the royal treatment.

Words near giving the royal treatment in the dictionary

  1. giving the finger
  2. giving the floor
  3. giving the game away
  4. giving the lie
  5. giving the lie to
  6. giving the royal treatment
  7. giving the sack
  8. giving the stem
  9. giving the time of day
  10. giving the word
  11. giving thought

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: giving the royal treatment (page history and authors); give the royal treatment (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “giving the royal treatment.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/giving_the_royal_treatment. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.