1.
[syn: imperial, majestic, purple, regal, royal]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Regal \Re"gal\, n. [F. r['e]gale, It. regale. CF. Rigoll.]
(Mus.)
A small portable organ, played with one hand, the bellows
being worked with the other, -- used in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Regal \Re"gal\ (r?"gal), a. [L. regalis, fr. rex, regis, a king.
See Royal, and cf. Rajah, Realm, Regalia.]
Of or pertaining to a king; kingly; royal; as, regal
authority, pomp, or sway. "The regal title." --Shak.
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He made a scorn of his regal oath. --Milton.
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Syn: Kingly; royal. See Kingly.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
regal
adj 1: belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; "golden age of
imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire";
"treated with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a
stag's head" [syn: imperial, majestic, purple,
regal, royal]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "regal":
advantageous, aristocratic, august, auspicious, beneficial,
benevolent, bon, bonny, braw, bueno, capital, cogent, commendable,
contemptuous, contumelious, courtly, derisive, derisory, dignified,
disdainful, dynastic, elegant, estimable, exalted, excellent,
expedient, fair, famous, favorable, fine, glorious, good, goodly,
grand, grave, haughty, healthy, helpful, imperatorial,
imperatorious, imperial, imperious, imposing, kind, kinglike,
kingly, laudable, lordly, magisterial, magnificent, majestic,
monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monarchical, nice, noble,
palatial, pleasant, pompous, princelike, princely, profitable,
proud, purple, queenlike, queenly, resplendent, royal, scornful,
sedate, skillful, sober, solemn, sound, sovereign, splendid,
stately, statuesque, sublime, useful, valid, venerable, very good,
virtuous, worthy
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Regal, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 40
Housing Units (2000): 20
Land area (2000): 0.503737 sq. miles (1.304672 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.503737 sq. miles (1.304672 sq. km)
FIPS code: 53710
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 45.405622 N, 94.847318 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Regal, MN
Regal