royal line

Noun
  1. Royal persons collectively (synset 108170336)
    "the wedding was attended by royalty"
    is a type of: house - aristocratic family line
    subtypes:
    • hanover, hanoverian line, house of 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, lancaster, lancastrian line - 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
    member holonym:
    • 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, queen regnant - a female sovereign ruler
    • queen - the wife or widow of a king
    same as: royal family, royal house, royalty

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