royal family

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Noun

royal family - royal persons collectively; "the wedding was attended by royalty"

royal house, royal line, royalty

house - aristocratic family line; "the House of York"

Hanoverian line, House of Hanover, Hanover - the English royal house that reigned from 1714 to 1901 (from George I to Victoria)

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

Hohenzollern - a German noble family that ruled Brandenburg and Prussia

House of Lancaster, Lancastrian line, Lancaster - the English royal house that reigned from 1399 to 1461; its emblem was a red rose

Plantagenet, Plantagenet line - the family name of a line of English kings that reigned from 1154 to 1485

Romanoff, Romanov - 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; the name was changed to Windsor in 1917 in response to anti-German feelings in World War I

Stuart - the royal family that ruled Scotland from 1371-1714 and ruled England from 1603 to 1649 and again from 1660 to 1714

House of York, York - the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose

Highness - (Your Highness or His Highness or Her Highness) title used to address a royal person

king, male monarch, Rex - a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

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 (especially the daughter of a sovereign)

female monarch, queen regnant - a female sovereign ruler

Translations

royal family

n the royal family → la famiglia reale

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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His idea was a republic, with- out privileged orders, but with a hereditary royal family at the head of it instead of an elective chief magistrate.

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Beside her was young King Evardo, and following them came the entire royal family of five Princesses and four Princes of Ev.

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At last, after twelve years, the royal family of Helium was reunited in their own mighty city, surrounded by joy-mad millions before the palace gates.

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In the service I mentally insert Miss Shepherd's name - I put her in among the Royal Family. At home, in my own room, I am sometimes moved to cry out, 'Oh, Miss Shepherd!' in a transport of love.

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They are not much reserved or confined, and have so much liberty in visiting one another that their husbands often suffer by it; but for this evil there is no remedy, especially when a man marries a princess, or one of the royal family. Besides their clothes, the Abyssins have no movables or furniture of much value, or doth their manner of living admit of them.

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'Now exhibiting within'--'The genuine and only Jarley'--'Jarley's unrivalled collection'--'Jarley is the delight of the Nobility and Gentry'--'The Royal Family are the patrons of Jarley.' When she had exhibited these leviathans of public announcement to the astonished child, she brought forth specimens of the lesser fry in the shape of hand-bills, some of which were couched in the form of parodies on popular melodies, as 'Believe me if all Jarley's wax-work so rare'--'I saw thy show in youthful prime'--'Over the water to Jarley;' while, to consult all tastes, others were composed with a view to the lighter and more facetious spirits, as a parody on the favourite air of 'If I had a donkey,' beginning

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But the Princess's affection for the Crab, and the polite attention with which she behaved to him, surprised the royal family very much.

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"Once the Nome King enslaved the Royal Family of Ev--another goody-goody lot that we detest," said the General.

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"I'm not sure it's even skeptical to believe in the royal family and not in the 'Holy' Family," replied Mr.

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Dejah Thoris and I with the other members of the royal family had collected in a sunken garden within an inner courtyard of the palace.

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I held them in my hands, till I came within two hundred yards of the gate, and desired them "to signify my arrival to one of the secretaries, and let him know, I there waited his majesty's command." I had an answer in about an hour, "that his majesty, attended by the royal family, and great officers of the court, was coming out to receive me." I advanced a hundred yards.

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"And now," announced the girlish Ruler of Oz, "we will hold a solemn conference to decide the best manner of liberating the royal family of this fair Land of Ev from their long imprisonment."