REGAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regal mean? 

• REGAL (adjective)
  The adjective REGAL has 1 sense:

1. belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler

  Familiarity information: REGAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler

Synonyms:

imperial; majestic; purple; regal; royal

Context example:

the royal carriage of a stag's head

Similar:

noble (of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times)

 Context examples 

Holmes’s eyes fixed themselves upon one of them, and following his gaze I saw the picture of a regal and stately lady in Court dress, with a high diamond tiara upon her noble head.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the present occasion she addressed herself chiefly to Miss Crawford and Fanny, but there was no comparison in the willingness of their attention; for Miss Crawford, who had seen scores of great houses, and cared for none of them, had only the appearance of civilly listening, while Fanny, to whom everything was almost as interesting as it was new, attended with unaffected earnestness to all that Mrs. Rushworth could relate of the family in former times, its rise and grandeur, regal visits and loyal efforts, delighted to connect anything with history already known, or warm her imagination with scenes of the past.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I was so sensitively aware, indeed, of being younger than I could have wished, that for some time I could not make up my mind to pass her at all, under the ignoble circumstances of the case; but, hearing her there with a broom, stood peeping out of window at King Charles on horseback, surrounded by a maze of hackney-coaches, and looking anything but regal in a drizzling rain and a dark-brown fog, until I was admonished by the waiter that the gentleman was waiting for me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We went on, cutting back again over the Park toward the West Hundreds. At 158th Street the cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses. Throwing a regal homecoming glance around the neighborhood, Mrs. Wilson gathered up her dog and her other purchases and went haughtily in.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)