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regally

regally adverb: in a regal manner, in the way of, or befitting, royalty.

Adverb

regally (comparative more regally, superlative most regally)

  1. In a regal manner, in the way of, or befitting, royalty.
    • Mrs. Mountstuart seated herself regally "Ah, Mr. Dale!" she said, inclining to him. "Yes, dear Lady Busshe, there is a particle."1879, George Meredith, The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC
    • His wife is very pretty. Not exactly regally lovely, of course—it wouldn’t do, I suppose, for a minister to have a regally lovely wife, because it might set a bad example.1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC

regally meaning in Urdu

regally in Urdu

خسروانہ

Examples of regally in a sentence

  • Under the bare electric bulbs the horizontal purple and gold bands, the colours of the Seaboard Railroad, glowed regally on the streamlined locomotives.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Silver Phantom”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 95:
  • But here was someone who could have been paid regally for just phoning it in for another year or two willing instead to throw that all away1998 January 12, “It's All About Timing”, in TIME:
  • In 1958, when the debate heatened, an elderly gentleman of excellent reputation stepped regally into a Senate hearing room in Washington prepared to testify against statehood for Alaska.1993, James A. Michener, Alaska:
  • Purple emperors are an exquisite morass of contradictions: disdainful of human company yet undisturbed by it; regally garbed yet partial to faecal feasts.2016, James Lowen, A Summer of British Wildlife, page 120:

Synonyms of regally

Forms of regally

comparativemore regally
superlativemost regally

Origin of regally

From Middle English regali; equivalent to regal + -ly.

Questions about regally

What does regally mean?
Regally means in a regal manner, in the way of, or befitting, royalty.
What is regally in Urdu?
Regally in Urdu is خسروانہ. See Regally meaning in Urdu.
How do you use regally in a sentence?
Under the bare electric bulbs the horizontal purple and gold bands, the colours of the Seaboard Railroad, glowed regally on the streamlined locomotives.
What part of speech is regally?
Regally is an adverb.

Words near regally in the dictionary

  1. regalists
  2. regalities
  3. regality
  4. regall
  5. regalls
  6. regally
  7. regalness
  8. regalo
  9. regals
  10. regalties
  11. regalty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: regally (page history and authors); regally (Urdu 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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