battle royal

1. 1.

   a noisy riotous fight

   Synonymsmeleescrimmage

   Broaderdisturbance

Questions about battle royal

What does battle royal mean?

battle royal means "a noisy riotous fight".

What is another word for battle royal?

Close synonyms include melee, scrimmage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is battle royal a common word?

battle royal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.