royalist

adjective more royalist · most royalist · Royalist

1. Of or related to royalists or some royalist faction. For a time, it was the only Royalist stronghold between London and Exeter, but it fell at last when a member of the garrison turned traitor and admitted the Parliamentary besiegers who destroyed it with gunpowder.
2. Of or characterized by royalism. His father... was the son of Elijah C. West, who, being of royalist belief, found Massachusetts an uncongenial home during the Revolutionary period and therefore migrated to Nova Scotia.

Similar: royalistic, royalistical, monarchist, monarchistic

noun royalists · Royalist

1. A monarchist (supporter of monarchy) or supporter of a particular royal régime.
2. historical a Cavalier, a supporter of King Charles I of England during the English Civil War.
3. historical a supporter of the House of Bourbon, in France since the 18th century and especially during the French Revolution.
4. historical a supporter of Ferdinand VII of Spain in Spanish South America during the South American Wars of Independence of the 1810s and 1820s.

Similar: supporter of a royal régime · Opposite: republican, democrat

adjective more Royalist · most Royalist

1. Alternative letter-case form of royalist, particularly in reference to specific royalist factions, especially (UK, historical) Cavalier supporters of the Stuart dynasty and (US, historical) Tory or Loyalist supporters of the British monarchy.

noun Royalists

1. Alternative letter-case form of royalist, particularly in reference to specific royalist factions, especially (UK, historical) Cavalier supporters of the Stuart dynasty and (US, historical) Tory or Loyalist supporters of the British monarchy.