royal family

Questions about royal family

What does royal family mean?

royal family means "royal persons collectively".

What is another word for royal family?

Close synonyms include royalty, royal line, royal house. 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 royal family a common word?

royal family 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.