ROYAL FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does royal family mean? 

• ROYAL FAMILY (noun)
  The noun ROYAL FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. royal persons collectively

  Familiarity information: ROYAL FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROYAL FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Royal persons collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

royal family; royal house; royal line; royalty

Context example:

the wedding was attended by royalty

Hypernyms ("royal family" is a kind of...):

house (aristocratic family line)

Meronyms (members of "royal family"):

Highness ((Your Highness or His Highness or Her Highness) title used to address a royal person)

king; male monarch; Rex (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)

prince (a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign))

princess (a female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign))

female monarch; queen; queen regnant (a female sovereign ruler)

queen (the wife or widow of a king)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "royal family"):

Hanover; Hanoverian line; House of Hanover (the English royal house that reigned from 1714 to 1901 (from George I to Victoria))

Habsburg; Hapsburg (a royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806)

Hohenzollern (a German noble family that ruled Brandenburg and Prussia)

House of Lancaster; Lancaster; Lancastrian line (the English royal house that reigned from 1399 to 1461; its emblem was a red rose)

Plantagenet; Plantagenet line (the family name of a line of English kings that reigned from 1154 to 1485)

Romanoff; Romanov (the Russian imperial line that ruled from 1613 to 1917)

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (the name of the royal family that ruled Great Britain from 1901-1917; the name was changed to Windsor in 1917 in response to anti-German feelings in World War I)

Stuart (the royal family that ruled Scotland from 1371-1714 and ruled England from 1603 to 1649 and again from 1660 to 1714)

House of York; York (the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose)

 Context examples 

I had an answer in about an hour, “that his majesty, attended by the royal family, and great officers of the court, was coming out to receive me.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Between ourselves, the recent cases in which I have been of assistance to the royal family of Scandinavia, and to the French republic, have left me in such a position that I could continue to live in the quiet fashion which is most congenial to me, and to concentrate my attention upon my chemical researches.

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

The emperor and royal family came out of the palace; I lay down on my face to kiss his hand, which he very graciously gave me: so did the empress and young princes of the blood.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)