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regal¹
- /ˈɹiːɡəl/
Rhymes with -iːɡəl
Where it comes from
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.
adjective more regal · most regal · regall
- Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty. regal authority
- 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.
- 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 a
regal²
- /ˈɹiːɡəl/
Rhymes with -iːɡəl
Where it comes from
From Middle English regal, from Middle French régale, possibly from Old French regol (“a gutter, channel”). Doublet of rail, regula, rigol, and rule.
noun regals · regall · rigole
- 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.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: royal, imperial, noble, majestic, purple, kingly, princely, queenlike, courtly, queen, stately, mighty, grand, splendid, queenly, sovereign
Translations
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adj of or having to do with royalty
| Español | real, regio, realengo |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 皇家的 huángjiā de, 莊嚴的 /庄严的 zhuānɡyán de |
| Português | régio, real |
| Français | régalien |
| Deutsch | königlich, majestätisch |
| Română | regal |
| Русский | короле́вский korolévskij |
| العربية | مَلَكِيّ malakiyy |
Talk about this word "regal." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/regal. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. regal. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/regal "regal." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/regal.Cite this
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