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adj
noun
- (music) A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by brass beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the 16th and 17th centuries, and has been revived for the performance of music from those times.
- (music) An organ stop of the reed family, furnished with a normal beating reed, but whose resonator is a fraction of its natural length. In the 16th and 17th centuries these stops took a multitude of forms. Today only one survives that is of universal currency, the so-called vox humana.
verb
- put a monarch on the throne
- provide with power and authority
- (transitive) to exalt, to praise
- (transitive, figuratively) To help a candidate to the succession of a monarchy (as a kingmaker does), or by extension in any other major organisation.
- (transitive) To put on the throne in a formal installation ceremony called enthronement, equivalent to (and often combined with) coronation and/or other ceremonies of investiture.
verb
noun
- (figuratively) Leadership, particularly the position of a monarch.
- the chair of state for a monarch, bishop, etc.
- the position and power of an exalted person (a sovereign or bishop) who is entitled to sit in a chair of state on ceremonial occasions
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- An impressive seat used by a monarch, often on a raised dais in a throne room and reserved for formal occasions.
- (music) A kind of stool used by drummers.
- (euphemistic) A toilet.
- The seat of a bishop in the cathedral-church of his diocese; also, the seat of a pope.
- (Christianity) A member of an order of angels ranked above dominions and below cherubim.
noun
adj
- being of the rank of a monarch
- invested with royal power as symbolized by a crown
- of or relating to or indicative of or issued or performed by a king or queen or other monarch
- belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
- established or chartered or authorized by royalty
- (boxing, military) Free-for-all, especially involving multiple combatants.
- (chess) Describing a piece which, if captured, results in loss of game.
- (nautical) In large sailing ships, of a mast right above the topgallant mast and its sails.
- (informal) Used as an intensifier.
- Having the air or demeanour of a monarch; illustrious; magnanimous; of more than common size or excellence.
- Of or relating to a monarch or his (or her) family.
noun
- stag with antlers of 12 or more branches
- a sail set next above the topgallant on a royal mast
- (military) A small mortar.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies.
- A stag with twelve points (six on each antler).
- A tuft of beard on the lower lip.
- The fourth tine of an antler's beam.
- An old English gold coin, the rial.
- (nautical, sailing) In large sailing ships, square sail over the topgallant sail.
- (somewhat informal, often capitalised) A royal person; a member of a royal family.
- (campanology) Bell changes rung on ten bells.
- (paper) A standard size of writing paper, measuring 24 by 19 inches.
- (card games) In auction bridge, a royal spade.
- (paper, printing) A standard size of printing paper, measuring 25 by 20 inches.
noun
- A monarch; the ruler of a country.
- Ellipsis of sovereign citizen.
- (UK, slang) A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring.
- A former Australian gold coin, minted from 1855–1931, of one pound value.
- A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33+¹⁄₃ standard bottles.
- A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
- One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
- Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalini, or genus Basilarchia, eg., ursula, viceroy.
- a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
adj
verb
noun
- Counsel to the Crown when the British monarch is a king
- (UK, historical) A barrister or advocate appointed by the Crown during the reign of a king.
- (UK, Canada, New Zealand, occasionally Australia) An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer) during the reign of a king.
noun
- The crown of a monarch.
- A circular or linear decoration, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.
- (mining) A metal gutter placed round a mineshaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe.
- An accolade or mark of honour.
- (nautical) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.
- The top; the thing most prized.
- (nautical) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provisions in.
- flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes
- an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.
verb
verb
- To crown king, to make (a person) king.
- To perform the duties of a king.
- To rule over as king.
- To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
- To dress and perform as a drag king.
- To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
noun
- a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
- A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
- (countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position.
- (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
- The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
- (Australia, historical) A male leader of a traditional Aboriginal group, often used as a title by colonists.
- The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
- (graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
- (UK, slang) A king skin.
- (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
- A powerful or majorly influential person; someone who holds the preeminent position.
- Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”).
- A male dragonfly; a drake.
- A king-sized bed.
- A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
- the husband or widower of a queen
- a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
- preeminence in a particular category or group or field
- a male competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
- (chess) the weakest but the most important piece
- one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
noun
- The period during which a monarch rules.
- royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
- the period during which a monarch is sovereign
- The exercise of sovereign power.
- The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled.
- a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful
verb
- (intransitive) To exercise sovereign power, to rule as a monarch.
- (transitive, rare, nonstandard) To reign over (a country)
- To be a dominant quality of a place or situation; to prevail, predominate, rule.
- To be the winner of the most recent iteration of a competition.
- be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
- have sovereign power
noun
name
- A popular name for a dog.
- A census-designated place in Robeson County, North Carolina, United States.
- A male given name from Latin coined in the nineteenth century from Latin rex "king," rarely given today.
- (formal, usually italicized) The reigning king.
- An unincorporated community in Clayton County, Georgia, United States.
noun
- royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
- government free from external control
- the authority of a state to govern another state
- (by extension) Of a person: the liberty to decide one's actions and thoughts.
- (by extension) Of a nation or other polity: the state of being able to control resources, make laws independently, and otherwise govern itself without the coercion or concurrence of other polities.
- Of a ruler (especially a monarch): supreme authority or dominion over something.
- (countable) A territory under the rule of a sovereign; an independent or self-governing nation or other polity.
- Pre-eminent or superior excellence; also, superior ability to achieve something; mastery.
noun
- a monarchy with a king or queen as head of state
- the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia
- a basic group of natural objects
- the domain ruled by a king or queen
- a domain in which something is dominant
- a country with a king as head of state
- A realm, region, or conceptual space where something is dominant.
- (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below domain and above phylum; a taxon at that rank (e.g. the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom).
- A realm having a king or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign.
noun
- the husband or wife of a reigning monarch
- The spouse of a monarch.
- a family of similar musical instrument playing together
- A ship accompanying another.
- (uncountable) Association or partnership.
- A group or company, especially of musicians playing the same type of instrument.
- (euphemistic, sometimes humorous) An informal, usually well-publicized sexual companion of a monarch, aristocrat, celebrity, etc.
- A husband, wife, companion or partner.
verb
adj
prefix
noun
- Counsel to the Crown when the British monarch is a queen
- (UK, historical) A barrister or advocate appointed by the Crown during the reign of a queen.
- (UK, Canada, New Zealand, occasionally Australia) An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer) during the reign of a queen.
noun
- A royalty.
- A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
- A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
- (object-oriented programming) A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.
- a manually operated device to correct the operation of an automatic device
- the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something
verb
- (transitive) To ride a horse too hard.
- (transitive) To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
- (transitive) To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
- (object-oriented programming, transitive) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
- (transitive, intransitive) To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
- (transitive) To ride across or beyond something.
- prevail over
- counteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle)
- rule against
- ride (a horse) too hard
noun
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- By faulty generalisation from a clause's grammatical subject often being coinstantiated with one: an actor or agent; one who takes action.
- A particular area of study.
- (grammar) The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- A human, animal, or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc; especially, one being studied in a scientific experiment, such as a clinical trial.
- (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- (logic) That of which something is stated.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- (mathematics) The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
- some situation or event that is thought about
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- (logic) the first term of a proposition
- a person who owes allegiance to that nation
- (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- a branch of knowledge
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
adj
- Conditional upon something; used with to.
- Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
- Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
- likely to be affected by something
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- possibly accepting or permitting
verb
- (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
- (transitive) To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave; to subjugate.
- make subservient; force to submit or subdue
- cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
- make accountable for
verb
- become king or queen
- come up, of celestial bodies
- move to a better position in life or to a better job
- go along towards (a river's) source
- go back in order of genealogical succession
- go upward with gradual or continuous progress
- slope upwards
- travel up
- (ambitransitive) To succeed a ruler on (the throne).
- (intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.
- (incel slang, intramurally derogatory) To cease being an incel, generally by losing one's virginity and engaging in sexual intercourse, or by forming a romantic relationship.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
- To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
- (transitive) To go up.
- (transitive, music) To become higher in pitch.
- (intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.
noun
- The male monarch or ruler of an empire.
- An emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri).
- Any fish of the family Lethrinidae.
- Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean the consort of an emperor.
- (entomology) Any of various large dragonflies of the cosmopolitan genus Anax.
- (tarot) The fourth trump or major arcana card of the tarot deck.
- (political theory) Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch.
- (entomology) Any of various butterflies of the subfamily Charaxinae.
- A large, relatively valuable marble in children's games.
- the male ruler of an empire
- large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings
- large richly colored butterfly
- red table grape of California
noun
- a queen dowager who is mother of the reigning sovereign
- (figurative) A woman, especially an older woman, with authority, preeminence, impressive presence, and/or a founding role in a specified area.
- A widowed queen consort (a queen dowager) whose son or daughter from that marriage is the reigning monarch.
noun
- the ceremony of installing a new monarch
- A success in the face of little or no opposition.
- (specifically, also attributively) An act or the ceremony of formally investing a sovereign or the sovereign's consort with a crown and other insignia of royalty, on or shortly after their accession to the sovereignty.
- A completion or culmination of something.
- (literally, also attributively) An act of investing with a crown; a crowning.
- (board games, rare) In the game of checkers or draughts: the act of turning a checker into a king when it has reached the farthest row forward.
noun
- the ceremony of installing a new monarch
- the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank
- (Spanish politics) The parliamentary vote required to inaugurate the Prime Minister of Spain.
- (specifically, chiefly historical) The formal installation or, generally, the appointment of a bishop, or (uncountable) bishops in general.
- That which invests or clothes; covering; vestment.
- The act of investing, as with possession or power; formal bestowal or presentation of a possessory or prescriptive right.
name
- A royal dukedom.
- A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, famous for being the location of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was formerly one of the county seats.
- Ellipsis of University of Cambridge.
- A town and village in Lamoille County, Vermont, United States.
- A village, the county seat of Henry County, Illinois, United States.
- A city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
- A town in Waikato, New Zealand.
- A city, the county seat of Dorchester County, Maryland, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Guernsey County, Ohio, United States.
- A village in Slimbridge parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England, situated on the local River Cam (OS grid ref SO7403).
- A city in Washington County, Idaho, United States.
- A local government area (the Town of Cambridge) in Perth, Western Australia.
- A suburb of the City of Clarence, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
- A city and local government district with borough status of Cambridgeshire, England, famous for its university.
- A city, the county seat of Isanti County, Minnesota, United States.
name
- A royal dukedom.
- A ghost town in Scioto Township, Delaware County, Ohio, United States.
- A town in Mpumalanga province, South Africa.
- An outer northern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Salisbury, South Australia.
- A council area of Scotland including the city, one of 32 created in 1996.
- The capital city of Scotland.
- A town in Bartholomew County, Johnson County and Shelby County, Indiana, United States.
name
- A royal dukedom.
- A census-designated place in North Carolina.
- A town in New South Wales, Australia.
- A cathedral city and local government district of Gloucestershire, England, on the river Severn, near the border with Wales.
- A township in Camden County, New Jersey.
- A city in Massachusetts.
- A district and former municipality in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
noun
name
- A royal dukedom.
- A former city and census-designated place in Union County, Iowa, disincorporated in 2003.
- A town in Putnam County, New York.
- A ghost town in Colusa County, California.
- A tiny city in Wilkin County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Marshall County, West Virginia.
- A city in King County, Washington, United States; a suburb of Seattle.
- A town in Litchfield, Connecticut.
- An unincorporated community in Sherman County, Oregon.
- A city in Portage County, Ohio.
- A surname from Old English derived from the place name.
- An unincorporated community in Pike County, Alabama.
- An unincorporated community in Nassau County, Florida.
- An unincorporated community in Stephenson County, Illinois.
- A coastal fishing village in the Western Area Rural District, Sierra Leone.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Republican Township, Jefferson County, Indiana.
- A hamlet in Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley parish, New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU1310).
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly American usage.
- A river in Cumbria, England, which flows into Morecambe Bay at Arnside.
- An unincorporated community in Elmore County, Alabama.
- The former name of Kentfield, a census-designated place in Marin County, California.
- A neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C..
- A district municipality of British Columbia, Canada.
- A maritime county in southeast England bordered by East Sussex, Surrey, Greater London, the North Sea and the English Channel.
- An unincorporated community in Culberson County, Texas.
noun
name
- An unincorporated community in Gibson County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia.
- A census-designated place in Farmington, Waupaca County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Lincoln County, Wisconsin.
- A township in the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia.
- (UK, rail transport) King class, a class of steam locomotives once used on the GWR.
- A city in Stokes County and Forsyth County, North Carolina.
- A village on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
- A neighbourhood in north-east Portland, Oregon.
- An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for someone who either acted as if he were a king or had worked in the king's household.
noun
- The male ruler of a barony.
- A baron of beef, a cut made up of a double sirloin.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euthalia.
- (by extension) A person of great power in society, especially in business and politics.
- A male member of the lowest rank of English nobility (the equivalent rank in Scotland is lord).
- (UK, prison slang) A prisoner who gains power and influence by lending or selling goods such as tobacco.
- a British peer of the lowest rank
- a nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank
- a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
noun
- an advocate of the principles of monarchy
- (historical) a supporter of the House of Bourbon, in France since the 18th century and especially during the French Revolution.
- A monarchist (supporter of monarchy) or supporter of a particular royal régime.
- (historical) a supporter of Ferdinand VII of Spain in Spanish South America during the South American Wars of Independence of the 1810s and 1820s.
- (historical) a Cavalier, a supporter of King Charles I of England during the English Civil War.
adj
noun
- One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled.
- (Indonesia) The chief executive of a regency.
- (now chiefly historical) A member of a municipal or civic body of governors, especially in certain European cities.
- (Scotland, Canada, US) A member of governing board of a college or university; also a governor of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
- someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch
- members of a governing board
adj
noun
adj
noun
noun
- A monarch; the ruler of a country.
- Ellipsis of sovereign citizen.
- (UK, slang) A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring.
- A former Australian gold coin, minted from 1855–1931, of one pound value.
- A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33+¹⁄₃ standard bottles.
- A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
- One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
- Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalini, or genus Basilarchia, eg., ursula, viceroy.
- a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
adj
verb
noun
- Counsel to the Crown when the British monarch is a king
- (UK, historical) A barrister or advocate appointed by the Crown during the reign of a king.
- (UK, Canada, New Zealand, occasionally Australia) An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer) during the reign of a king.
noun
- The crown of a monarch.
- A circular or linear decoration, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.
- (mining) A metal gutter placed round a mineshaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe.
- An accolade or mark of honour.
- (nautical) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.
- The top; the thing most prized.
- (nautical) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provisions in.
- flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes
- an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.
verb
noun
- The period during which a monarch rules.
- royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
- the period during which a monarch is sovereign
- The exercise of sovereign power.
- The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled.
- a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful
verb
- (intransitive) To exercise sovereign power, to rule as a monarch.
- (transitive, rare, nonstandard) To reign over (a country)
- To be a dominant quality of a place or situation; to prevail, predominate, rule.
- To be the winner of the most recent iteration of a competition.
- be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
- have sovereign power
verb
- To crown king, to make (a person) king.
- To perform the duties of a king.
- To rule over as king.
- To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
- To dress and perform as a drag king.
- To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
noun
- a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
- A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
- (countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position.
- (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
- The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
- (Australia, historical) A male leader of a traditional Aboriginal group, often used as a title by colonists.
- The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
- (graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
- (UK, slang) A king skin.
- (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
- A powerful or majorly influential person; someone who holds the preeminent position.
- Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”).
- A male dragonfly; a drake.
- A king-sized bed.
- A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
- the husband or widower of a queen
- a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
- preeminence in a particular category or group or field
- a male competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
- (chess) the weakest but the most important piece
- one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
noun
name
- A popular name for a dog.
- A census-designated place in Robeson County, North Carolina, United States.
- A male given name from Latin coined in the nineteenth century from Latin rex "king," rarely given today.
- (formal, usually italicized) The reigning king.
- An unincorporated community in Clayton County, Georgia, United States.
noun
- royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
- government free from external control
- the authority of a state to govern another state
- (by extension) Of a person: the liberty to decide one's actions and thoughts.
- (by extension) Of a nation or other polity: the state of being able to control resources, make laws independently, and otherwise govern itself without the coercion or concurrence of other polities.
- Of a ruler (especially a monarch): supreme authority or dominion over something.
- (countable) A territory under the rule of a sovereign; an independent or self-governing nation or other polity.
- Pre-eminent or superior excellence; also, superior ability to achieve something; mastery.
noun
- a monarchy with a king or queen as head of state
- the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia
- a basic group of natural objects
- the domain ruled by a king or queen
- a domain in which something is dominant
- a country with a king as head of state
- A realm, region, or conceptual space where something is dominant.
- (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below domain and above phylum; a taxon at that rank (e.g. the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom).
- A realm having a king or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign.
noun
- the husband or wife of a reigning monarch
- The spouse of a monarch.
- a family of similar musical instrument playing together
- A ship accompanying another.
- (uncountable) Association or partnership.
- A group or company, especially of musicians playing the same type of instrument.
- (euphemistic, sometimes humorous) An informal, usually well-publicized sexual companion of a monarch, aristocrat, celebrity, etc.
- A husband, wife, companion or partner.
verb
adj
noun
- Counsel to the Crown when the British monarch is a queen
- (UK, historical) A barrister or advocate appointed by the Crown during the reign of a queen.
- (UK, Canada, New Zealand, occasionally Australia) An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer) during the reign of a queen.
noun
- A royalty.
- A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
- A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
- (object-oriented programming) A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.
- a manually operated device to correct the operation of an automatic device
- the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something
verb
- (transitive) To ride a horse too hard.
- (transitive) To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
- (transitive) To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
- (object-oriented programming, transitive) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
- (transitive, intransitive) To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
- (transitive) To ride across or beyond something.
- prevail over
- counteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle)
- rule against
- ride (a horse) too hard
noun
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- By faulty generalisation from a clause's grammatical subject often being coinstantiated with one: an actor or agent; one who takes action.
- A particular area of study.
- (grammar) The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- A human, animal, or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc; especially, one being studied in a scientific experiment, such as a clinical trial.
- (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- (logic) That of which something is stated.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- (mathematics) The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
- some situation or event that is thought about
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- (logic) the first term of a proposition
- a person who owes allegiance to that nation
- (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- a branch of knowledge
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
adj
- Conditional upon something; used with to.
- Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
- Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
- likely to be affected by something
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- possibly accepting or permitting
verb
- (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
- (transitive) To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave; to subjugate.
- make subservient; force to submit or subdue
- cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
- make accountable for
noun
- The male monarch or ruler of an empire.
- An emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri).
- Any fish of the family Lethrinidae.
- Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean the consort of an emperor.
- (entomology) Any of various large dragonflies of the cosmopolitan genus Anax.
- (tarot) The fourth trump or major arcana card of the tarot deck.
- (political theory) Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch.
- (entomology) Any of various butterflies of the subfamily Charaxinae.
- A large, relatively valuable marble in children's games.
- the male ruler of an empire
- large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings
- large richly colored butterfly
- red table grape of California
noun
- a queen dowager who is mother of the reigning sovereign
- (figurative) A woman, especially an older woman, with authority, preeminence, impressive presence, and/or a founding role in a specified area.
- A widowed queen consort (a queen dowager) whose son or daughter from that marriage is the reigning monarch.
noun
- the ceremony of installing a new monarch
- A success in the face of little or no opposition.
- (specifically, also attributively) An act or the ceremony of formally investing a sovereign or the sovereign's consort with a crown and other insignia of royalty, on or shortly after their accession to the sovereignty.
- A completion or culmination of something.
- (literally, also attributively) An act of investing with a crown; a crowning.
- (board games, rare) In the game of checkers or draughts: the act of turning a checker into a king when it has reached the farthest row forward.
noun
- the ceremony of installing a new monarch
- the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank
- (Spanish politics) The parliamentary vote required to inaugurate the Prime Minister of Spain.
- (specifically, chiefly historical) The formal installation or, generally, the appointment of a bishop, or (uncountable) bishops in general.
- That which invests or clothes; covering; vestment.
- The act of investing, as with possession or power; formal bestowal or presentation of a possessory or prescriptive right.
noun
name
- An unincorporated community in Gibson County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia.
- A census-designated place in Farmington, Waupaca County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Lincoln County, Wisconsin.
- A township in the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia.
- (UK, rail transport) King class, a class of steam locomotives once used on the GWR.
- A city in Stokes County and Forsyth County, North Carolina.
- A village on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
- A neighbourhood in north-east Portland, Oregon.
- An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for someone who either acted as if he were a king or had worked in the king's household.
noun
- The male ruler of a barony.
- A baron of beef, a cut made up of a double sirloin.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euthalia.
- (by extension) A person of great power in society, especially in business and politics.
- A male member of the lowest rank of English nobility (the equivalent rank in Scotland is lord).
- (UK, prison slang) A prisoner who gains power and influence by lending or selling goods such as tobacco.
- a British peer of the lowest rank
- a nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank
- a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
verb
noun
- (figuratively) Leadership, particularly the position of a monarch.
- the chair of state for a monarch, bishop, etc.
- the position and power of an exalted person (a sovereign or bishop) who is entitled to sit in a chair of state on ceremonial occasions
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- An impressive seat used by a monarch, often on a raised dais in a throne room and reserved for formal occasions.
- (music) A kind of stool used by drummers.
- (euphemistic) A toilet.
- The seat of a bishop in the cathedral-church of his diocese; also, the seat of a pope.
- (Christianity) A member of an order of angels ranked above dominions and below cherubim.
noun
- an advocate of the principles of monarchy
- (historical) a supporter of the House of Bourbon, in France since the 18th century and especially during the French Revolution.
- A monarchist (supporter of monarchy) or supporter of a particular royal régime.
- (historical) a supporter of Ferdinand VII of Spain in Spanish South America during the South American Wars of Independence of the 1810s and 1820s.
- (historical) a Cavalier, a supporter of King Charles I of England during the English Civil War.
adj
noun
- One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled.
- (Indonesia) The chief executive of a regency.
- (now chiefly historical) A member of a municipal or civic body of governors, especially in certain European cities.
- (Scotland, Canada, US) A member of governing board of a college or university; also a governor of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
- someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch
- members of a governing board
adj
noun
adj
verb
- put a monarch on the throne
- provide with power and authority
- (transitive) to exalt, to praise
- (transitive, figuratively) To help a candidate to the succession of a monarchy (as a kingmaker does), or by extension in any other major organisation.
- (transitive) To put on the throne in a formal installation ceremony called enthronement, equivalent to (and often combined with) coronation and/or other ceremonies of investiture.
verb
noun
- (figuratively) Leadership, particularly the position of a monarch.
- the chair of state for a monarch, bishop, etc.
- the position and power of an exalted person (a sovereign or bishop) who is entitled to sit in a chair of state on ceremonial occasions
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- An impressive seat used by a monarch, often on a raised dais in a throne room and reserved for formal occasions.
- (music) A kind of stool used by drummers.
- (euphemistic) A toilet.
- The seat of a bishop in the cathedral-church of his diocese; also, the seat of a pope.
- (Christianity) A member of an order of angels ranked above dominions and below cherubim.
verb
- To crown king, to make (a person) king.
- To perform the duties of a king.
- To rule over as king.
- To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
- To dress and perform as a drag king.
- To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
noun
- a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
- A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
- (countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position.
- (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
- The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
- (Australia, historical) A male leader of a traditional Aboriginal group, often used as a title by colonists.
- The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
- (graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
- (UK, slang) A king skin.
- (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
- A powerful or majorly influential person; someone who holds the preeminent position.
- Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”).
- A male dragonfly; a drake.
- A king-sized bed.
- A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
- the husband or widower of a queen
- a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
- preeminence in a particular category or group or field
- a male competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
- (chess) the weakest but the most important piece
- one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
verb
- become king or queen
- come up, of celestial bodies
- move to a better position in life or to a better job
- go along towards (a river's) source
- go back in order of genealogical succession
- go upward with gradual or continuous progress
- slope upwards
- travel up
- (ambitransitive) To succeed a ruler on (the throne).
- (intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.
- (incel slang, intramurally derogatory) To cease being an incel, generally by losing one's virginity and engaging in sexual intercourse, or by forming a romantic relationship.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
- To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
- (transitive) To go up.
- (transitive, music) To become higher in pitch.
- (intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.
adj
noun
- (music) A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by brass beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the 16th and 17th centuries, and has been revived for the performance of music from those times.
- (music) An organ stop of the reed family, furnished with a normal beating reed, but whose resonator is a fraction of its natural length. In the 16th and 17th centuries these stops took a multitude of forms. Today only one survives that is of universal currency, the so-called vox humana.
adj
- being of the rank of a monarch
- invested with royal power as symbolized by a crown
- of or relating to or indicative of or issued or performed by a king or queen or other monarch
- belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
- established or chartered or authorized by royalty
- (boxing, military) Free-for-all, especially involving multiple combatants.
- (chess) Describing a piece which, if captured, results in loss of game.
- (nautical) In large sailing ships, of a mast right above the topgallant mast and its sails.
- (informal) Used as an intensifier.
- Having the air or demeanour of a monarch; illustrious; magnanimous; of more than common size or excellence.
- Of or relating to a monarch or his (or her) family.
noun
- stag with antlers of 12 or more branches
- a sail set next above the topgallant on a royal mast
- (military) A small mortar.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies.
- A stag with twelve points (six on each antler).
- A tuft of beard on the lower lip.
- The fourth tine of an antler's beam.
- An old English gold coin, the rial.
- (nautical, sailing) In large sailing ships, square sail over the topgallant sail.
- (somewhat informal, often capitalised) A royal person; a member of a royal family.
- (campanology) Bell changes rung on ten bells.
- (paper) A standard size of writing paper, measuring 24 by 19 inches.
- (card games) In auction bridge, a royal spade.
- (paper, printing) A standard size of printing paper, measuring 25 by 20 inches.