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Regal vs Queenish - What's the difference?

regal | queenish |

As a noun regal

is shelf.

As an adjective queenish is

like a queen; regal.

regal

English

Alternative forms

* regall (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or having to do with royalty.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
    • He made a scorn of his regal oath.
  • Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
    • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=The [Washington] Post's 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.}}

    Related terms

    * regime * regimen

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, musici) A small, portable organ played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

    • See also

    * kingly * royal * splendid * stately

    Anagrams

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    queenish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like a queen; regal.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=January 2, author=Nazila Fathi, title=Designer’s Rainbow Brightens Iranian Women’s Look, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“These clothes give a queenish posture because they are long, have a lot of textile and are traditional,” she said at her home in northern Tehran. }}
  • Like a drag queen.