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Definition: Regal |
RegalAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "regal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Regal is a city located in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 40.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.3 km² (0.5 mi²). 1.3 km² (0.5 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 40 people, 19 households, and 11 families residing in the city. The population density is 30.9/km² (79.4/mi²). There are 20 housing units at an average density of 15.4/km² (39.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 97.50% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 2.50% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 19 households out of which 15.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.4% are married couples living together, 0.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 42.1% are non-families. 26.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 26.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.11 and the average family size is 2.64. In the city the population is spread out with 10.0% under the age of 18, 15.0% from 18 to 24, 25.0% from 25 to 44, 27.5% from 45 to 64, and 22.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 44 years. For every 100 females there are 100.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 125.0 males. The median income for a household in the city is $39,167, and the median income for a family is $60,417. Males have a median income of $50,417 versus $27,500 for females. The per capita income for the city is $26,710. 0.0% of the population and 0.0% of families are below the poverty line.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Regal, Minnesota."
Synonyms: RegalSynonyms: imperial (adj), majestic (adj), purple (adj), royal (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deputy | Adjective: acting, vice, vice regal; accredited to. |
Government | Adjective: regal, sovereign, governing; royal, royalist; monarchical, kingly; imperial, imperiatorial; princely; feudal; aristocratic, autocratic; oligarchic; Noun: republican, dynastic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Regal |
| English words defined with "regal": coronate, crown ♦ High commission court ♦ regally, Regious, Royal touch ♦ Superregal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "regal": Abimelech ♦ Dick's Hatband. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "regal": Rigoll. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Regal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Catalan (donation, gift, present), German (rack, regal, shelf, shelves), Romanian (majestic, monarchal, royal). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's supposed to make you look regal. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) Do I look absolutely divine and regal, and yet and at the same time very pretty and rather accessible (Blackadder II; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nissae bila regal (1953) El regal d'aniversari Laia (1998) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Common name is Regal - Pygoplytes diacanthus. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Florida Regal Goddess nudibranch. Credit: Sanctuaries. |
 | A Regal Sea Fan. Credit: Sanctuaries. |  | Regal donne par le roy a Madame la Dauphine, May 1680. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Regal Knitting Co., 1333 Broadway, New York City. Elevator foyer. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The 1955 Studebaker Commander V-8 Regal Conestoga station wagon for six passengers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "101 on the 101" by Kd Kelly Commentary: "This is the last and fastest of my speedometer pictures - taken on the 101 southbound in the early afternoon. it's blurry, but remember, i was going a hundred one miles per hour in a 95 buick regal. taking pictures. i had a low fuel light on too, but i mi" |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Two cases there are, I say, whereby a king, ipso facto, becomes no king, and loses all power and regal authority over his people; which are also taken notice of by Winzerus. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | His manners were truly regal. |
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Travel | Ghana | Osu, around the corner from Regal, and 3 blocks from Dynasty. (references) |
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| "Regal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 80.63% of the time. "Regal" is used about 315 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 80.63% | 254 | 18,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 19.37% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Total | 100.00% | 315 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "regal" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Regal | Last name | 300 | 24,284 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Hong Kong | Regal Hotels International Holdings Limited | Japan | Regal Corporation |
| United Kingdom | Regal Hotel Group Plc | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Regal, MN (city, FIPS 53710) |
Expressions using "regal": regal pomp ♦ vice regal. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "regal": vice-regal. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
regal cinema | 9,556 | cinema regal theater | 51 |
regal | 1,550 | regal empress | 49 |
regal theater | 1,073 | movie regal theatres | 48 |
regal boat | 530 | regal gift | 47 |
buick regal | 339 | turbo regal | 45 |
regal movie theater | 325 | regal bread maker | 44 |
movie regal | 288 | buick regal used | 42 |
regal entertainment | 268 | regal catalog | 40 |
regal theatres | 243 | plastic regal | 39 |
cinamas regal | 200 | regal sale | 39 |
cinimas regal | 189 | greeting regal | 39 |
entertainment group regal | 127 | blue regal tang | 39 |
chivas regal | 86 | cinema.com regal | 35 |
cinemas.com regal | 81 | buick regal part | 34 |
cinemas regal showtimes | 77 | regal travel | 33 |
cinima regal | 77 | film regal | 32 |
cinama regal | 74 | auction regal | 31 |
regal greeting and gift | 72 | 1985 buick regal | 31 |
regal cruise | 69 | regal nissan | 30 |
regal home | 58 | regal cinema 16 | 28 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "regal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | prej mbreti (kingly), mbretëror (caesarian, kingly, monarchal, princely, purple, royal). (various references) | |
Arabic | فخم (deluxe, grand, grandiose, imperial, imposing, lordly, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, noble, palatial, plushy, pompous, pontifical, rich, royal, splendid, stately, substantial, sumptuous, superb), ملكي (facultative, imperial, kingly, king's, mine, monarchal, monarchist, of mine, possessive, proprietary, royal, royalistic, sovereign). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | царствен (kingly, majestic, queenly, sculpturesque), царски (royal), кралски (kingly, royal), величествен (awesome, grand, imperial, jovian, kingly, lofty, magnificent, majestic, monumental, noble, olympian, proud, royal, sculpturesque, stately, statuesque, sublime). (various references) | |
Chinese | 豪华 (deluxe, Luxuries, luxurious, luxury), 帝王 . (various references) | |
Czech | nádherný (divine, fantastic, glorious, gorgeous, noble, opulent, pompous, princely, rich, splendid, superb), královský (handsome, kingly, royal). (various references) | |
Dutch | vorstelijk (royal), vorstelijk (royal), vorstelýk (royal), koninklijk (royal), koninklijk (royal), koninklýk (royal). (various references) | |
Esperanto | reĝa (royal). (various references) | |
Farsi | پادشاهی (Imperial, Kingdom, Sovereignty), شاهوار (Royal). (various references) | |
Finnish | kuninkaallinen (royal). (various references) | |
French | royal. (various references) | |
Frisian | keninklik (royal). (various references) | |
German | königlich (kinglike, kingly, queenly, regally, royal, royally, sovereignly). (various references) | |
Greek | βασιλικόσ (kinglike, queenly, royal), βασιλικός (basil, royal), ηγεμονικόσ (princely). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלכותי (imperial, kingly, majestic, monarchial, royal). (various references) | |
Hungarian | uralkodói (sceptered, sceptred, sovereign), királyi (kingly, lord high almoner, royal, royal academy, royalty, sceptred), fejedelmi (palatial, princely, royal), királyhoz méltó. (various references) | |
Italian | regale (kingly, queenly), da portamento regale. (various references) | |
Manx | reeoil (kinglike, monarchy, royal). (various references) | |
Papiamen | real (royal). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egalray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | real (absolute, actual, factual, incarnate, kingly, pence, penny, positive, practicable, practical, real, royal, sterling, tangible, true, unfeigned, veritable, very, visual). (various references) | |
Russian | королевский (kingly, queenly, royal). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kraljevski (kingly, regally, royal). (various references) | |
Spanish | regio (great, kingly, princely, royal). (various references) | |
Swedish | kunglig (kingly, royal). (various references) | |
Turkish | muhteşem (August, corking, glorious, gorgeous, grand, imperial, lordly, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, majestic, noble, olympian, resplendent, royal, slashing, solemn, spectacular, splendid, stately, stupendous, superb), krallara lâyık (royal), krallık (kingdom, kingship, realm, royalty, the crown), krala ait (purple, royal). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | царствений (kingly, princely, purple, queenlike, queenly, royal), королівський (kingly, royal). (various references) | |
Welsh | brenhinol (royal), brenhinaidd (kingly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | regalis, regius. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | cynelic. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "regal": regale, regaled, regaler, regalers, regales, regalia, regaling, regalities, regality, regally. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "regal": viceregal. (additional references) | |
Words containing "regal": viceregally. (additional references) | |
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"Regal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: begal, egal, Erfal, Ergay, Ergel, Geral, Kregel, megal, Pregel, Rabal, Rafal, ragla, Rawal, raxaul, reaal, Reag, reagal, reall, realp, rega, regad, regai, regail, Regala, regall, regalla, regalo, regals, regar, regat, rege, regell, regga, regi, regia, regild, regir, Reglar, rego, regul, reguli, regulo, Rehal, rehaul, rejail, rejel, reval, Rezal, Riegel, rigali, rigall, Rigalt, Riggall, Rizal, Rogaly, Rosgill, Rueval, rugal, segal, Trega, vegal, wegal, Wraxall. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "regal" (pronounced rē"gul) |
| 4 | -ē" g u l | beagle, eagle, extralegal, illegal, Spiegel, legal, paralegal. |
| 3 | -g u l | algal, angle, antifungal, bagel, bangle, bedraggle, boggle, Bogle, boondoggle, bugle, centrifugal, commingle, conjugal, dangle, Dingle, disentangle, entangle, finagle, frugal, fungal, gaggle, giggle, goggle, gurgle, haggle, Spangle, squiggle, straggle, strangle, struggle, swingle, tangle, Ingle, intermingle, jangle, jiggle, jingle, juggle, jungle, Kugel, madrigal, Mangel, mangle, milligal, mingle, mogul, mongol, Ogle, prodigal, rectangle, shingle, single, smuggle, snuggle, tingle, toggle, triangle, untangle, wangle, wiggle, wrangle, wriggle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: argle, glare, lager, large. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-r" | |
-1 letter: ager, earl, egal, gale, gear, lear, rage, rale, real. | |
-2 letters: age, ale, are, ear, era, erg, gae, gal, gar, gel, lag, lar, lea, leg, rag, reg. | |
-3 letters: ae, ag, al, ar, el, er, la, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-r" | |
+1 letter: aglare, alegar, angler, argled, argles, argyle, galere, galore, gaoler, garble, gargle, glaire, glared, glares, glazer, gravel, laager, lagers, lagger, larger, larges, malgre, raggle, regale, regnal, tergal. | |
+2 letters: aerogel, alegars, algebra, aligner, alleger, allegro, allergy, angerly, anglers, argyles, clanger, dangler, draggle, eagerly, earplug, engrail, enlarge, flagger, flanger, fragile, gabbler, galeres, gallery, galores, gambler, gambrel, gangrel, gaolers, garbled, garbler, garbles, gargled, gargler, gargles, general, glacier, gladder, gladier, glaired, glaires, glancer, glarier, glazers, glazier, gleamer, gleaner, gloater, glomera, gnarled, gomeral, grabble, gracile, grackle, granule, grapnel, grapple, graupel, gravels, gravely, greatly, gremial, greylag, haggler, jangler, laagers, lagered, laggers, langrel, largely, largess, largest, laugher, leaguer, legator, mangler, nargile, pergola, plaguer, raggles, realgar, realign, regaled, regaler, regales, regalia, regally, reginal, reglaze, regular, tangler, tegular, verglas, vorlage, wangler, wrangle. | |
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