royal family

Noun

Meaning

royal persons collectively

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

royalty royal house royal line court royal court Royals House of Windsor royal household House of Lancaster the Crown royalties immediate family of a king immediate family of a reigning monarch immediate family of a sultana imperial relatives
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Antonyms

ordinary peasant nobody commoner proletarian middle class
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Hypernyms

house

Hyponyms

Romanov Lancaster Romanoff Plantagenet Hanover Habsburg

Examples

If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago. John Lydon

I believe that the royal family are a focus of patriotism, of loyalty, of affection and of esteem. That is a rare combination, and we should value it highly. Margaret Thatcher

When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue. Anthony Holden

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children. Lord Mountbatten

The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that. Zara Phillips

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. Igor Stravinsky

Close letter words and terms

royal duke royal eagle royal estate royal family of the united kingdom royal fern royal fish