Regal

/ˈɹiːɡəl/ · adjective

Meaning

Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.
2. Befitting a monarch.
3. (music) 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.
4. (music) 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.

Example Sentences

regal authority

the regal title

He made a scorn of his regal oath.

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.

Terrific movement from The Queen here. Gets behind the defender, goes one way then cuts back inside. Regal attacking play.

Kwarteng said he had urged Truss to “slow down” over reforms, but a cabinet minister told the FT that she felt “invincible, almost regal”.

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Word Forms

• more regal
• most regal
• regall
• regals
• rigole

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