royalist

English

Alternative forms

• Royalist

Etymology

From royal +‎ -ist.

Adjective

royalist (comparative more royalist, superlative most royalist)

1. Of or related to royalists or some royalist faction. [1680]
   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 134, about Corfe Castle:

     For a time, it was the only Royalist stronghold between London and Exeter, but it fell at last when a member of the garrison turned traitor and admitted the Parliamentary besiegers who destroyed it with gunpowder.

2. Of or characterized by royalism.
   • 1898, ‘’Portrait and Biographical Record of Denver and Vicinity Colorado..., p. 1271:

     His father... was the son of Elijah C. West, who, being of royalist belief, found Massachusetts an uncongenial home during the Revolutionary period and therefore migrated to Nova Scotia.

Synonyms

• royalistic, royalistical, monarchist, monarchistic

Derived terms

• more royalist than the king
• nonroyalist
• royalistic
• royalistical
• ultraroyalist
• unroyalist

Noun

royalist (plural royalists)

1. A monarchist (supporter of monarchy) or supporter of a particular royal régime.
2. A legitimist, a supporter of a particular royal line, especially one in danger of being dispossessed of a throne or actually dispossessed of such, and claiming to have the better claim to the throne on the basis of line of descent; especially:
   1. (historical) a Cavalier, a supporter of King Charles I of England during the English Civil War.
   2. (historical) a supporter of the House of Bourbon, in France since the 18th century and especially during the French Revolution.
   3. (historical) a supporter of Ferdinand VII of Spain in Spanish South America during the South American Wars of Independence of the 1810s and 1820s.

Synonyms

• (supporter of a royal régime): basilean (obsolete)

Antonyms

• republican
• democrat

Related terms

• royalism

Translations

supporter of monarchy

• Bulgarian: монархист m (monarhist)
• Catalan: reialista m or f
• Danish: royalist c
• Esperanto: rojalisto
• Finnish: monarkisti (fi), rojalisti (fi)
• French: royaliste (fr) m or f
• Galician: realista m or f
• German: Königstreuer m, Königstreue f, Royalist (de) m, Royalistin (de) f
• Greek: φιλοβασιλικός (el) m (filovasilikós), βασιλόφρων (el) (vasilófron)
• Ido: royalisto (io)
• Irish: ríogaí m
• Italian: realista (it) m or f
• Kazakh: роялист (royaliyst)
• Korean: 왕정주의자(王政主義者) (wangjeongjuuija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rojalist m

  Nynorsk: rojalist m

• Persian: سلطنت طلب (saltanat talab)
• Polish: rojalista (pl) m, rojalistka f
• Russian: рояли́ст (ru) m (rojalíst)
• Spanish: realista (es) m or f
• Swedish: rojalist (sv) c
• Welsh: brenhinwr m, brenhinwraig f

Anagrams

• solitary

Danish

Etymology

royal +‎ -ist, from French royaliste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʁʌjaˈlisd]

Noun

royalist (singular definite royalisten, plural indefinite royalister)

1. a royalist

   Synonym: monarkist

   Antonym: republikaner

Inflection

Declension of royalist

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	royalist	royalisten	royalister	royalisterne
genitive	royalists	royalistens	royalisters	royalisternes

Related terms

• royal
• royalistisk
• royalisme

Further reading

• “royalist” in Den Danske Ordbog