English > royalty: 2 senses > noun 2, group| Meaning | royal persons collectively. |
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| Example | "the wedding was attended by royalty" |
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| Synonyms | royal family, royal line, royal house |
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| Members | Highness | (Your Highness or His Highness or Her Highness) title / title used to address a royal person |
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| king, male monarch, Rex | A male sovereign |
| prince | A male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign) |
| princess | A female member of a royal family other than the queen / queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign) |
| queen, queen regnant, female monarch | A female sovereign ruler |
| queen | The wife or widow of a king |
| Narrower | Habsburg, Hapsburg | A royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806 |
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| Hanover, House of Hanover, Hanoverian line | The English royal house that reigned from 1714 to 1901 (from George I to Victoria) |
| Hohenzollern | A German noble family that ruled Brandenburg and Prussia |
| Lancaster, House of Lancaster, Lancastrian line | The English royal house that reigned from 1399 to 1461 |
| Plantagenet, Plantagenet line | The family name of a line of English kings that reigned from 1154 to 1485 |
| Romanov, Romanoff | The Russian imperial line that ruled from 1613 to 1917 |
| Saxe-Coburg-Gotha | The name of the royal family that ruled Great Britain from 1901-1917 |
| Stuart | The royal family that ruled Scotland from 1371-1714 and ruled England from 1603 to 1649 and again from 1660 to 1714 |
| York, House of York | The English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485 |
| Broader | house | aristocratic family line |
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| Spanish | familia real |
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| Catalan | família reial |
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| Adjectives | royal | established or chartered or authorized by royalty |
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