- 1王者風範的、有帝王氣派的。不一定真的是王室；多半用來形容一個人氣質高貴、從容不迫，或東西氣派十足。
Regal describes something that belongs to a king or queen, or that looks and feels the way we imagine kings and queens to be — grand, calm, sure of itself, a little above everyone else. It is an adjective. You can use it in the plain way, about real royal things: a regal palace, regal robes, a regal visit. But far more often in real life it is used about people and things that are NOT royal at all. A tall woman who walks slowly into a room with her head high looks regal. An old cat sitting straight up on a chair looks regal. A dinner with too many courses feels regal. When used this way, it is a compliment about how someone carries themselves — proud, , . It is a fairly formal, fairly written word. People do not say it much in ordinary talk; you will find it in books, in descriptions, in reviews of clothes or films. It can also be gently funny — calling a small child or a pet regal is a way of saying they take themselves very seriously. One thing to notice: regal is about the LOOK and MANNER of royalty, while royal is about the FACT of it. A prince is royal whether or not he is . A stranger is regal even though she is nobody's queen.
From the word’s history
From Old French regal, from Latin rēgālis 'royal, kingly', from rex 'king'.
經古法文來自拉丁文 rēgālis「國王的」，源自 rex「國王」。
組成From Latin rex, regis (king) — through Old French. The same Latin king-word is also tied to regere, to rule. English took this Latin word twice by two different roads: once through Latin directly, giving regal, and once through French, giving royal. That is why the two words mean almost the same thing but feel different.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
regaladj詞源 1/ˈɹiːɡəl/
- 1
Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.
- regal authority
- the regal title
- 2
Befitting a monarch.
- The [Washington] Posts proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal' Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.
- Terrific movement from The Queen here. Gets behind the defender, goes one way then cuts back inside. Regal attacking play.
- 3
Befitting a monarch.
- The children to whom I acted as cicerone almost screamed with glee as they saw the four-and-twenty blackbirds emerging from the pie-crust in front of the astonished King; and when the climax of the inconsequential story was reached, by way of the regal counting house and the “reginal” parlour, and a blackbird (presumably one of the four-and-twenty that had been temporarily immured in the pie) was seen about to revenge himself on the innocent nose of the guiltless laundry-maid, a veritable climax of enthusiasm was reached.
- The crown seals, a regal crown and a reginal crown are unengraved, but from the motif I judge they symbolize King William III of England and Queen Mary, (see 1688, English History) who formerly ruled Holland as Prince William, Consort, and Queen Mary — The House of Orange.
regalnoun詞源 2/ˈɹiːɡəl/
- 1
entertainmentlifestylemusicA 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.
- 2
entertainmentlifestylemusicAn 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.
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