regale
UK/ɹɪˈɡeɪl//ɹɪˈɡeɪl/
regale noun: a feast, a meal.
Noun
regale (plural regales)
- A feast, a meal.
- And now a maiden […] ſupplied them, next, / With a reſplendent table, which the chaſte / Directreſs of the ſtores furniſh'd with bread / And dainties, remnants of the laſt regale.1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book I.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 9...
- The noise from the servants' hall was rendered more acutely painful by her headach; for her aunt, partly with a view of annoying her niece, whom she disliked—as we always dislike those we have used ill—had left orders for a general regale.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 136
- a choice article of food or drink.
- refreshment.
Verb
regale (third-person singular simple present regales, present participle regaling, simple past and past participle regaled)
- To please or entertain (someone), especially with stories, tales or jokes.
- Please, regale us with your best tales!
- You’ve Got Mail is certainly the basic model for the plot, which finds corporate candy shill Joel ([Paul] Rudd) and indie-sweetshop owner Molly ([Amy] Poehler) regaling their dinner companions with the very long, digressive story of how they met and fell in love.2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2017
- To provide hospitality for (someone); to supply with abundant food and drink.
- To feast (on, with something).
- she hardly lets a Week pass without making the Lady Abbess and her Nuns a Visit, to regale with a Cup of burnt Brandy.1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section V
- To entertain with something that delights; to gratify; to refresh.
- to regale the taste/the eye/the ear
regale meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Sanskrit
regale in Urdu
- پرتکلف ضیافت, دعوت کھانا, جشن منانا, تسکین دینا
regale in Malayalam
- സന്തോഷിപ്പിക്കുക, ആഹ്ലാദിപ്പിക്കുക, സത്കരിക്കുക
regale in Kannada
- ನಗಿಸು, ಸೊಮ್ಮುಗೊಳಿಸು, ಹಬ್ಬದೂಟ ಕೊಡಿಸು
regale in Sanskrit
- to regale
- शा śā
Examples of regale in a sentence
- The news media regale us with horror stories about dangerous flu viruses, multidrug-resistant superbugs, and EHEC-contaminated food.
- “Do you regale your little student friends with every detail of our lives?
- Dad sat at one end of the table, and regaled all present with his stories.
Forms of regale
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | regales |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | regales |
| present participle | regaling |
| past participle | regaled |
| past | regaled |
Origin of regale
From French régaler (“to entertain, feast”), from Old French regale, rigale, from gale (“merriment”), probably of Germanic origin (see Old French galer). Influenced by Old French se rigoler (“amuse oneself, rejoice”), of unknown origin. Compare Middle High German begalen (“to charm; enchant”), English gale (“to sing; charm”). Compare also English gala.
Words formed from regale
Words that rhyme with regale
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- veil
- pale
- avail
- wale
- whale
- bail
- hail
- yale
- bale
- snail
- travail
- brail
- exhale
- frail
- jail
- prevail
- swale
- vail
- wail
- derail
- dwale
- entail
- flail
- Gail
- gayle
- impale
- kale
- quail
- spale
- thumbnail
- white whale
- ale
- curtail
- drail
- gale
- inhale
- retail
- shale
- tael
- unveil
- ail
- all hail
- assail
- ayel
- beyond the pale
- braille
- cakes and ale
- camail
Questions about regale
- What does regale mean?
- Regale means a feast, a meal.
- What is regale in Urdu?
- Regale in Urdu is پرتکلف ضیافت, دعوت کھانا, جشن منانا. See Regale meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is regale?
- Regale can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce regale?
- Regale is pronounced /ɹɪˈɡeɪl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of regale?
- The plural of regale is regales.
Words near regale in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: regale (page history and authors); regale (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); regale (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); regale (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); शा (Sanskrit) (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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