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say it: ROY-uhl
royal is an adjective and noun meaning "of or relating to or indicative of or issued or performed by a king or queen or other monarch". It is pronounced /ˈɹɔɪəl/ — ROY-uhl. It carries 7 recorded senses.
of or relating to or indicative of or issued or performed by a king or queen or other monarch
“the royal party”
“the royal crest”
“by royal decree”
“a royal visit”
established or chartered or authorized by royalty
“the Royal Society”
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”
invested with royal power as symbolized by a crown
“the royal (or crowned) heads of Europe”
a sail set next above the topgallant on a royal mast
stag with antlers of 12 or more branches
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for royal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.