Regal

Alternative forms

• regall obsolete

Origin

From Middle English regal, from Old French regal ("regal, royal"), from Latin regalis ("royal, kingly"), from Latin rex ("king"); also regere ("to rule").

Full definition of regal

Adjective

1. Of or having to do with royalty.
   regal authority;   the regal title
• John Milton (1608-1674)He made a scorn of his regal oath.
2. Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress.
• 2013-08-10, Lexington, Keeping the mighty honest, The Washington Post's 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.

Related terms

• regime
• regimen

Noun

1. (obsolete, musici) A small, portable organ played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Anagrams

• Alger
• Elgar
• glare
• lager
• large