royal

«royal» in Mova's school dictionary: About a king or queen or their family — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (royal); noun (a royal, royals — informal)

meaning for a pupil

1) About a king or queen or their family. tree →

2) Belonging to or working for a king or queen, or under their patronage: the Royal Navy. tree →

3) Very grand, fit for a king. tree →

4) (noun, informal) A member of a royal family. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons it is about kings, queens and their courts. In the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand many things carry the name Royal (the Royal Mail, Royal Air Force). In stories castles and palaces have royal families. Phrases: royal family, royal palace, the royals, a royal welcome, royal blue.

examples

• The royal family lives in a palace. tree →
• We saw the royal coach in the parade. tree →
• She was given a royal welcome when she came home. tree →
• The royals waved from the balcony. tree →
• Purple was once a royal colour. tree →
• My grandpa served in the Royal Navy. tree →
• That was a royal mess! tree →
• "His Royal Highness," replied the General. tree →

note

Royal comes from roi, French for king. Related words: royalty (the royal people, or money paid to an author or inventor). Loyal and royal sound alike but mean different things.

In the corpora

• The British royal family is the most gossiped-about family in the world.
• Royal news comes in layers.
• Above them are «royal sources», newspaper columns and online guesses — some right, many wrong, none of them checkable.
• Royal news also has words to watch.
• As for Asher, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «royal» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.