ROYAL SOCIETY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Royal Society mean? 

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

1. an honorary English society (formalized in 1660 and given a royal charter by Charles II in 1662) through which the British government has supported science

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROYAL SOCIETY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An honorary English society (formalized in 1660 and given a royal charter by Charles II in 1662) through which the British government has supported science

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Royal Society; Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge

Hypernyms ("Royal Society" is a kind of...):

academy; honorary society (an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature)

 Context examples 

Stripes may dazzle flies in some way once they are close enough to see them with their low-resolution eyes, said study co-author and Royal Society University Research Fellow Martin How.

(Zebra stripes may 'dazzle' pathogen-packing horse flies, Wikinews)

All day amid that incessant and mysterious menace our two Professors watched every bird upon the wing, and every shrub upon the bank, with many a sharp wordy contention, when the snarl of Summerlee came quick upon the deep growl of Challenger, but with no more sense of danger and no more reference to drum-beating Indians than if they were seated together in the smoking-room of the Royal Society's Club in St. James's Street.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)