regal
Syllables: re·gal/ˈɹiːɡəl/
regal adjective: of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.
Adjective
regal (comparative more regal, superlative most regal)
- Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.
- regal authority
- the regal title
- Befitting a monarch.
- The [Washington] Posts proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
- Terrific movement from The Queen here. Gets behind the defender, goes one way then cuts back inside. Regal attacking play.2018 July 14, Gary Lineker, Twitter, retrieved 15 Jul 2018
- Befitting a king or emperor.
- The children to whom I acted as cicerone almost screamed with glee as they saw the four-and-twenty blackbirds emerging from the pie-crust in front of the astonished King; and when the climax of the inconsequential story was reached, by way of the regal counting house and the “reginal” parlour, and...c. 1898, Truth, column 2
- The crown seals, a regal crown and a reginal crown are unengraved, but from the motif I judge they symbolize King William III of England and Queen Mary, (see 1688, English History) who formerly ruled Holland as Prince William, Consort, and Queen Mary — The House of Orange.c. 1947, Hobbies, page 27, column 1
Noun
regal (plural regals)
- 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.
- 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.
regal meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
regal in Hindi
- regal, royal
- राजशाही rājśāhī
regal in Tamil
- அரச, இராச, அரசருக்குரிய, வீறார்ந்த, மாட்சிமையுடைய
regal in Urdu
- خسروی, مالکانہ, شاہانہ, شاہی
regal in Bengali
- of or having to do with royalty
- শাহানা śahana
More languagesFewer languages
- regal in Malayalam
- രാജകീയ rājakīya
- regal in Kannada
- ಅರಸನ, ಅರಸನಿಗೆ ಒಪ್ಪುವ, ರಾಜೋಚಿತವಾದ, ರಾಜಾರ್ಹ
- regal in Punjabi
- ਰੀਗਲ
- regal in Arabic
- مَلَكِيّ malakiyy
Examples of regal in a sentence
- The Queen signed her letter with the regal signet.
- Regal sea goddesses have navy blue bodies inscribed with yellow lines and often polka dots.
- I suspect Queen Marie would not have found my school catering very regal.
Forms of regal
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more regal |
| superlative | most regal |
| alternative form (obsolete) | regall |
| Noun | |
| plural | regals |
| alternative form | rigole |
Origin of regal
From Middle English regal, from Old French regal (“regal, royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“royal, kingly”), from rex (“king”); also regere (“to rule”). Doublet of royal (“belonging to a monarch”), real (“unit of currency”), ariary, and riyal. Cognate with Spanish real, Italian reale, Catalan reial.
From Middle English regal, from Middle French régale, possibly from Old French regol (“a gutter, channel”). Doublet of rail, regula, rigol, and rule.
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Questions about regal
- What does regal mean?
- Regal means of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.
- What is regal in Hindi?
- Regal in Hindi is राजशाही (rājśāhī). See Regal meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is regal?
- Regal can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce regal?
- Regal is pronounced /ˈɹiːɡəl/.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: regal (page history and authors); राजशाही (Hindi) (page history and authors); regal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); regal (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); regal (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); regal (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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