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noun
Synonym of royalty (“monarch and their families treated as a group”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: collective, countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: royalty
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a dynasty, a specific family of a monarch
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see royal, house.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
royal persons collectively
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: royalty, royal family, royal line
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: house
Narrower terms: Hanover, House of Hanover, Hanoverian line, Habsburg, Hapsburg, Hohenzollern, Lancaster, House of Lancaster, Lancastrian line, Plantagenet, Plantagenet line, Romanov, Romanoff, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Stuart, York, House of York
History
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