quasi-royal

1. 1.

   having the power but not the rank or title of a king

   “one of the quasi-royal rulers of Africa”

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Questions about quasi-royal

What does quasi-royal mean?

quasi-royal means "having the power but not the rank or title of a king".

How many syllables are in quasi-royal?

quasi-royal has 4 syllables and divides as qua-si--ro-yal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is quasi-royal a common word?

quasi-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.